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From: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding)
Subject: Re: tip, ecu broken?  How to bootstrap net?
Message-ID: <mvhDzMs4H.2D1@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:55:29 GMT
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Finally got PPP to work - I will post some hints later.  Mostly, I had
to set PPP up to do active negotiation, and turn off the PRED1
predictive compression.  Works great now!  But I sure had some lucky
guesses...


J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding) wrote:

: > What's the recommended way to dial in to my Netcom account so I can
: > launch slirp and do a 'slattach'?

: cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 19200

: You must be a member of group `dialer' in order to do this.  This will
: simply drop you directly to the modem, so you gotta dial with AT
: commands directly.  However, it's the only way that doesn't require
: touching any configuration file beforehand.

: If you wanna break out to start slattach locally, use ``~^Z'', where
: the tilde must come right after a newline, and ^Z is Control-Z.  This
: will just suspend the cu process without closing the modem (which
: would cause it to hangup).

: -- 
: cheers, J"org

: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)