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- From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD SLIP support
- Date: 9 Dec 92 16:55:17
- Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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- Message-ID: <BLYMN.92Dec9165517@coolibah.awadi.com.au>
- References: <3863@news.cerf.net> <1fi90cINNnd@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
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- In-reply-to: fn@waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de's message of 2 Dec 1992 12:08:44 GMT
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- >>>>> On 2 Dec 1992 12:08:44 GMT, fn@waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Frank Nobis) said:
- F> NNTP-Posting-Host: waldorf
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- F> In article <3863@news.cerf.net>, lewis@nic.cerf.net (Lewis Jr. High) writes:
- F> |> I know that 386BSD supports SLIP, but is there any way to command the
- F> |> modem to dial a terminal server and log in with a username and password to
- F> |> get the SLIP session started?
- F> |>
- F> |> Jeff
-
- F> I use tip to dial the modem and to log in an annexbox. At the annexcli I enter
- F> 'slip' and the annex switches to SLIP. I suspend tip with '~^Z' and give the
- F> slattach command. To disconnect I kill both tip and slattach.
-
- Even better yet, if you use kermit you can quit kermit without the
- modem hanging up and you then just run slattach. To disconnect kill
- slip and run kermit again to hangup the modem (or do it manually). I
- made a short script that does the slattach and adding of routes, makes
- life much easier.
-
-
- --
- Brett Lymn
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