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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!sundog.tiac.net!rick From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Auto-dialing, Auto-redialing under SLIP [FreeBSD 1.1] Date: 29 Jul 1994 17:10:22 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <RICK.94Jul29131023@vox.trystero.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vox.trystero.com Hi, I had no trouble getting SLIP to run. I am having some trouble trying to decide which avenue to take to get SLIP to auto-dial on system boot, and redial any time I drop carrier. Kermit looks like it could do the job, and looking at the script in the FreeBSD slip FAQ, I see everything there except how to exit from Kermit gracefully after establishing carrier. Same with cu. How do I get a dialer to exit gracefully without dropping carrier? The only thing I've really come up with is to hack on cu (to the effect of after successful connection exit without dropping the child reading the port). Alternatively, I'm looking at the 'chat' program in /usr/bin, but this doesn't seem to have the capability to work directly with the port. Has anybody else got dialing/redialing scripts for slattach that they're willing to share? Anybody made any modifications to slattach to include a dialer? SLIP works just great. I don't even want to try pppd right now because it works so nice. I'd only play with PPP if someone would convince me that there is a tremendous performance/reliability gain to be had. Any thoughts? Thanks!