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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news From: nick@werple.mira.net.au (Nick Langmaid) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to dial slip? Date: 27 Jan 1995 22:54:30 +1100 Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3gamtm$kh9@werple.mira.net.au> References: <MARK.1368.2F1C885D@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> <3fjoc4$3eu@xanth.cs.odu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.mira.net.au sturges@violet.cs.odu.edu (Jonathan Sturges) writes: >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. Take a look at the chat command. Redirect input and output to the serial line in question. You can get slattach to run the chat command autoatically whenever it detects that the line is down. Make sure that the devices for the line are ttyd? and cua0? (see /dev/MAKEDEV.) Hope this helps, Nick.