Subj : [--- Fnos Ftp Tcp/Ip ---]
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : WINSTON SMITH
Date : Sun Sep 10 2000 04:47 am

CA> You have managed to connect using FNOS but then the
CA> trouble starts from that point onward. I must therefore
CA> assume that the built-in PPP of FNOS is able to connect you and
CA> therefore I also assume that you are using a PPP connection. 
 
     Actually, I think PPP is failing/hanging/crashing.  Even though I
address a unit called PP0, I think that TIP runs the modem script just
fine, I form a modem handshake just fine, and when the actual protocols
start, FNOS then hangs with a "limbo" process.
 

 
CA> If this is correct then I would recommend getting a copy
CA> of NetTamer at this point since it is capable of doing
CA> what you require...
 
     That seems to be the next logical step.  I hope that NETTAMER has
better error diagnostics than FNOS.
 
 
 

 CA> Something in what you say is missing because you said
 CA> earlier that the BBS had a display telling you to use port
 CA> 22 for FTP.  If you dialed directly to your Boston Library
 CA> Consortium and it was your BBS there would be no way for
 CA> you to FTP to port 22 from within a telnet session AFAIK.
  
     Ergo, we deduce that the Boston Library Consortium node is --NOT--,
in fact, a BBS, but --IS-, in fact, a modem gateway server on the
Internet that connects one to other destinations, i.e. a modem gateway.
 
 
 

 ws> There was a Verizon strike. 

 CA> I don't know what "Verizon" is. 
 
     "Verizon" is the brand name of our local phone company.  It used to
be "Bell Atlantic".  Before that it used to be "NYNEX".  Before that it
used to be "New England Telephone/NET".
 
 

ws> I am my own ISP. That is the problem! 

CA> An ISP pays fees to other computer systems to be allowed
CA> to access the Internet for you.  You connect to them and
CA> they transfer through their very expensive connection you
CA> and hundreds of other persons all at once. 
CA>
CA> I don't think that is what you are doing. 9) 
 
 
     No.  It's not.  Since I am forced to FTP instead of a local
mainframe, I am providing my own Internet Services to my machine.
Therefore, I was being facetious, with tongue planted firmly in cheek.
 

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