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From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How to dial slip?
Date: 20 Jan 1995 05:11:49 GMT
Organization: The Trystero System
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Message-ID: <3fngml$p2j@sundog.tiac.net>
References: <MARK.1368.2F1C885D@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> <3fjoc4$3eu@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
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In article <3fjoc4$3eu@xanth.cs.odu.edu>,
Jonathan Sturges <sturges@violet.cs.odu.edu> wrote:
>Mark_Bramwell (MARK@ardsley.business.uwo.ca) wrote:
>: How does one dial for slip?
>: I have a slip account and will have to pass the username/password to the 
>: terminal server.
>
>I'm sure there are ways to automate this, but I've never done it.
>However, for just plain old dialing out, it's probably easiest to use kermit.
>Once you connect, you can enter the username & password by hand.  Then, either
>quit kermit (if you told your modem to ignore DTR), or just suspend it
>(CTRL-Z).  Then run slattach, ifconfig, and you're good to go!
>
>:-)

I keep seeing this question here, so I'm starting to put together an HTML
page with an overview of setting up a PPP dialer.  It's way under 
construction, I've only covered about 1/4th of the topic, but if you
wanna look and make comments (or poke fun) it's at:

http://www.trystero.com/rick/bsd/dialppp.html

I got a lot of help from people on this newsgroup getting mine set up,
so I'm going to try and feed this stuff back.

If the BSD people think it's useful, I'll contribute it to their home
page so they can handle the bandwidth (I'm on a PPP line after all).

Of course, documenting how to get PPP up on the WWW is kinda silly,
since a lot of people can't get at the WWW until they get PPP up. :)


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Richard Nickle                      http://www.trystero.com/rick.html