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From: injb@verleihnix.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Joachim Bartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SLIP dialup utility?
Date: 19 May 1995 16:16:22 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU Clausthal
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Ryan Eberhard (rje1@cornell.edu) wrote:
: Has anyone seen or written a utility for handling dialup connections to a
: SLIP server when ip addresses are assigned at connection time?  I would
: really appreciate anything that anyone has come up with.  I know there's
: a similar utility for LINUX users -- any one seen this (i.e. can I get
: that code and compile it for FreeBSD)?

Last month I ported the Linux dip utility to NetBSD.  Although I was not
able to test it under FreeBSD, I think it will work together with other
BSDish systems as well.

If can be found at anonymous ftp:
	ftp.rz.tu-clausthal.de   in   /pub/unix/tuc/


Joachim Bartz

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