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+1 for a reference to slirp, which let you turn a dial-in connection to a Unix terminal into a real internet connection back in the days when your University would give you a terminal connection but not a PPP connection.


I still use slirp to get free tethering on my iPhone.


I remember SLIRP -- and The Internet Adapter.


I used SlipKnot for that -- it converted a shell-dialup at University of Oregon into a SLIP connection that I could use with Netscape 1.0


SLIP being a "competitor" to PPP.




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