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Does A/UX have a PPP driver ? You could run NetBSD on your SE/30, it will do PPP (and IPv6).

• peteri 6y ago
  Pretty sure from my college days it has a full tcp stack, certainly I remember running X11R3 on A/UX and using two machines to get decent performance (one as server, one as client)
  • rbanffy 6y ago
    I used to have my RS-6000 (connected to my Intergraph monitor and a proper Model-M keyboard) running as X client to my laptop, which had a much smaller screen, and work that way. I could run a browser on the laptop (Firefox doesn't like X too much) and have a couple terminals and Emacs on glorious AIX flavored CDE.
• tr352 6y ago
  Delved into this a bit, and found some claims that there's no PPP driver for A/UX, so I guess there's the answer. I know about NetBSD. However, in my somewhat irrational mind, it lacks the cool factor of A/UX, the spiritual stepfather of Mac OS X (the biological one being NeXTStep, obviously).
  • rjsw 6y ago
    The PPP protocol isn't very complicated, how easy it would be to add to a binary-only UNIX is another question. You could have a look for whether the A/UX network stack is from BSD or System V. One thing that would make a big difference is whether it supports STREAMS [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS
  • justin66 6y ago
    A few minutes of googling make it look like SLIP and PPP solutions exist for A/UX.