>Question for Richard: do you have to have a static IP address assigned to >you to use UUCP over TCP/IP?
No, you don't - only the server does. When uucico runs on the client machine, it makes a TCP/IP connection to port 540 of the server machine (which would normally be a machine permanently connected to the Internet). >From then on in, the sequence of events is the same as if it had connected by dialing over a modem without an intervening IP stack: the client machine logs into the server in the traditional UNIX way and speaks a UUCP protocol over the connection. There is a potential oddity, depending how things are set up. With the UUCP services run by my employer, if uucico goes in over TCP/IP, the chat script uses only one login/password pair; whereas if it goes in over dialup, there's two - one to authenticate to the Ascend which actually picks up the phone, and one to authenticate to the UUCP server machine. The Ascend just makes a port 540 connection to the UUCP machine, so while it looks like UUCP over dialup to the customer, it appears to be UUCP over TCP/IP to the server. Not that the software cares much either way. (This is also true of PSI UK's service, in fact.) -- Richard Kettlewell http://www.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ [wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba] It was a creepy and surreal morning when they implanted the biochips in the mind of Mohinder Singh. [wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba]
