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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: banana@panix.com (Walter Polkosnik) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Auto-dialing, Auto-redialing under SLIP [FreeBSD 1.1] Date: 2 Aug 1994 22:48:53 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <31n0il$gm4@panix.com> References: <RICK.94Jul29131023@vox.trystero.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Richard E. Nickle (rick@vox.trystero.com) wrote: : 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! I've used kermit, but let me tell you , chat will save you a lot of headaches, one of which is that nasty dropping carrier stuff you're talking about. To use any of this stuff with slattach as a deamon, you need to patch slattach.c... Just thought I'd mention that... -- Walter Polkosnik banana@panix.com Physics Department Queens College, CUNY Credo quia absurdum est.