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From: fn@waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Frank Nobis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD SLIP support
Date: 2 Dec 1992 12:08:44 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
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In article <3863@news.cerf.net>, lewis@nic.cerf.net (Lewis Jr. High) writes:
|> I know that 386BSD supports SLIP, but is there any way to command the
|> modem to dial a terminal server and log in with a username and password to
|> get the SLIP session started?
|> 
|> Jeff

I use tip to dial the modem and to log in an annexbox. At the annexcli I enter
'slip' and the annex switches to SLIP. I suspend tip with '~^Z' and give the
slattach command. To disconnect I kill both tip and slattach. 

Regards
       Frank
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