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On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:35:25AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote: > Hmm. I always thought the unix tip command was a reference to tip and ring of phone line pairs. This sounds more likely... Something for Peter Salus... > > Around 12:36 PM 10/19/1999 -0700, rumor has it that [email protected] said: > >> TAC as in tacacs? > > > >Yep. The original TACACS specification was in a BBN technical > >memo, CC-0045; RFC 1492 contains an informal specification > >of the extended version that Cisco implemented. The background > >section of RFC 1492 gives a bit of the history: > > > >Background > > > > There used to be a network called ARPANET. This network consisted of > > end nodes (hosts), routing nodes (IMPs) and links. There were (at > > least) two types of IMPs: those that connected dedicated lines only > > and those that could accept dial up lines. The latter were called > > "TIPs." i think TIP stood for Terminal Interface Processor, and IMP stood for Interface Message Processor. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
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