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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!demon!pizzabox.demon.co.uk!gtoal Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) Subject: Re: 386BSD SLIP support Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 20:22:00 +0000 Message-ID: <9212042022.AA10911@pizzabox.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 25 :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 put example shell and kermit scripts as well as enhanced slattach :source code on ref.tfs.com in /usr/packages/dialup-slip.tar.Z. :Perhaps we should form a mailing list for dialup ip. Who's interested :in discussning slip and ppp? Rich I use a 'chat' command (I think it was pinched from some ppp package) to connect to my Slip supplier, and expect (calling tip) to hang up. As far as I know I'm the only person using this service (demon) with 386bsd. If you want the chat prog or the scripts I use, drop me a line and I'll put them up for ftp on rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk. Graham PS Mailing list: I'd say just keep it here; traffic wouldn't be that much would it?