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From: warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff)
Subject: Re: how to setup a SLIP connection???
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 16 Aug 93 12:47:00 PDT
Message-ID: <1993Aug16.124700.22929@crash>
References: <2175@foxim.nl>
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Roland van Hout (rvh@foxim.nl) wrote:
: 
: Hi there,
: 
: I understand how to setup a serial line/login with the sliplogin
: programm so I can log in to a 386bsd system and start up a SLIP connection.
: But how do I call out to another system supporting SLIP????
: Are there any special callout programm's or do you use telnet/tip ???
: There has to be something with modem configurations and numbers just
: like uucp!

Yes! Are there any all-in-one packages for a system that wants to put a modem
on a com port for dial-in login and/or slip and dial-out slip (or for that
matter, ppp)? I know I can piece something together with getty, sliplogin, 
etc. but it's a real pain.

I haven't figured out how to use sliplogin yet but I will soon. The problem
will be dialing out to another system for slip! I've heard of a program called
"dp" that will run as a demon and sense if I'm doing a ftp or telnet and will
manage my modem for automatic dialout to a host slip site.

Does anyone know where I can ftp this program? Or at least a clue as to the
file name so I can do an archie to find it?