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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!news.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Looking for SL/IP for BSDI Date: 31 Aug 1995 02:15:42 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <42360f$id2@hops.entertain.com> References: <41vl0v$i27@kerby.ocsg.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp003.entertain.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <41vl0v$i27@kerby.ocsg.com>, dennisg@news-srvr.CyberSAFE.COM (Dennis Glatting) says: > >I am looking for a SL/IP package (preferably, free) >for BSDI that supports the following characteristics: > * Address negotiation. > * Prompt the *user* for the password (i.e., login > support for token cards). >It would be swell if the package supported the >following too: > * Dial on demand. > * Inactivity time-out. > >I am interested in hearing from you if you know >of such a package. > A little shell programming does the trick for us. We set up our system so that when our users dial in, they have to have a script in their software which types a command like 'startslip' or something similar. The startslip script checks to see which tty they are on, sets SLIP args such as local and remote IP addresses, and reports the address to the user's client software, which parses the address, blah blah. We run both SLIP and PPP, and make the user 'type' either startup command, so we son't have to create two accounts for them.