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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Auto-dialin SLIP?
Date: 20 Jul 1995 10:57:13 +0200
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Martin Butkus  <M.Butkus@tu-bs.de> wrote:

>What I would like to have is that whenever some program tries to access the
>slip line FreeBSD *automatically* dials up the connection, etc., and when there
>is silence on the line for say 5 minutes it terminates the connection.

Use (iij)ppp.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)