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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
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <RICK.94Jul29131023@vox.trystero.com>
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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!