From: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 20:07:10 -0500
To: [email protected]
Subject: InterSLIP-FAQ-4-10-95

Dear Moderators,
Some slight modifications to my former FAQ, please replace it with this new one.
Sorry for the double post. I realized the former had no subject line.
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Attached is a new update of the FAQ I previously posted.  This post
pre-empts any pre-existing posts of this FAQ.

Disclaimer:
I am an end-user of all (no longer an end-user of InterSLIP)*
the software mentioned below, and not the author of
any of these packages.  I provide this FAQ after having 6 months of trouble
setting up a SLIP connection with an Internet service provider that doesn't
have any Macintoshes to speak of.  After finally finding out what
configuration is most apt to give good service, I felt it best to share
this setup with anyone who happens to read this FAQ.

The FAQ begins here:

To setup a proper InterSLIP connection via modem, follow these suggestions
as much as possible by getting:

1. Use MacTCP 2.0.4 or later (available from the "Internet Starter Kit"
  by Adam Engst, and an upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.04 from a sumex-aim mirror
   site).

 Requires: MacTCP DNR to be in your system folder,
 MacTCP to be in your Control Panels folder MacTCP Prep to be in your
 preferences folder

2. Interslip 1.0.1 (part of the "Internet Starter Kit"
  or you can get it from Interslip-installer-101.hqx from comm/tcp directory
  of sumex-aim and mirror archives)
  which requires: Interslip Setup in any folder you can access easily.

  InterSLIP Extension in your Extensions Folder

  Interslip Folder in your preferences folder

  Trash the InterSLIP Control Panel, it was used only in earlier versions of
  InterSLIP.

  You will need a dialing script called a CCL script sent to you by your modem
  manufacture, that you can put in your System Folder/Preferences/Interslip
  Folder/Dialing Scripts
  folder.  These should not be confused with other CCL ARA scripts not stored
  as ASCII.  Only ASCII scripts are known from my experience to work with
  InterSLIP.
  ASCII format can be identified by either TEXT document, or Teachtext
   document file type.

3.  Put a gateway script provided by your internet service
   provider in your System Folder/Preferences/Interslip Folder/Gateway scripts
   folder.  Both scripts should have e-mail headers removed (if received via
    e-mail).

4.  Your internet service provider should have prior experience setting up
   Interslip configurations, who will provide you all the other settings for
   MacTCP and Interslip.

5. Get a $15 Hardware Handshaking cable for your modem, if your Internet
  service provider gives you option of using Hardware Handshaking (doesn't
  make sense for internal modems, thus you should leave Hardware Handshaking
  disabled for those modems unless otherwise specified by the modem
  manufacturer).

6. If planning to download images larger than 120k in 2 minutes or less,
  you will need at least a 9600 BAUD modem.

7. If planning to download a 1 MB movie in 20 minutes or less, you need a
  14.4 k BAUD (14,400) modem or faster.  Note if you are planning to get a
  28.8 k BAUD modem, that your modem and your service provider's modem you
  dial into should have the same compression protocol supported.  Compression
   protocols at that
   speed are V. 34 and V. Fast (sometimes referred to as V. FC).  Differing
   protocols
   will mean no compression will result, and possibly slower speeds than the
   expected 28.8 k BAUD.  Some older Macs have a limit on their serial
port
   intake/output
  and will only support 9600 BAUD no matter how fast your modem is.

8. To not run any other extensions while connecting to the Internet, other
  than the ones mentioned above. Printing extensions are fine, FAXModem
  extensions are NOT. One person I talked with said he could run with
  FAXmodem extensions loaded.  Though considering FaxSTF that comes with many
  modems does not work, I'd avoid the conflict as much as possible.

9. Do NOT open any Gopher, WWW, E-mail, Telnet, FTP software (called
   TCP/IP clients) until after you have properly connected through
   the Interslip Setup. Proper connection, implies that Interslip Setup says
   <connected>, and your High Speed (HS), Off-Hook (OH), Terminal Ready (TR),
   Carrier Detect (CD) lights on your modem are all on. It also implies that
   Requesting SLIP Service, and afterwards <Connected> reads out under the
   Disconnect button in InterSLIP setup.  Exceptions that work without this
   problem: Eudora 1.5.1, if not set to scan for messages after X period of
   time (0 minutes), and Netscape 1.1b3 if the modem power is off.  Others may
   also work.  Please feel free to e-mail me information about other
   applications that do not require a connection be in place or that do not
   attempt to dial for a connection.

10.    A good modem INIT to help you for your Interslip Setup is (Hayes
   compatible modems only):

   AT&F&C1&D2&Q5&K3Q0E1V1L1X4S7=50S11=95^M

If you have any further questions about setting up the InterSLIP setup, address
them to your Internet Service Provider.

Hope this piece of the puzzle helps.
Sincerely,
[email protected] (e-mail)
* I moved service providers after finding out that MacPPP supported redial,
data compression, and CTS error correction.  All of which aren't supported by
InterSLIP.  However, for some people this may not matter, as long as the lines
aren't busy to the Internet Service Provider, one will be safe from the crashes
that result from InterSLIP's reception of busy signals.

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