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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: 386BSD SLIP support
In-Reply-To: lewis@nic.cerf.net's message of 1 Dec 92 05:57:15 GMT
Message-ID: <RICH.92Dec1165100@omicron.Rice.edu>
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
	University
References: <3863@news.cerf.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 22:51:00 GMT
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In article <3863@news.cerf.net> lewis@nic.cerf.net (Lewis Jr. High) writes:
   I know that 386BSD supports SLIP, but is there any way to command the
   modem to dial a terminal server and log in with a username and password to
   get the SLIP session started?

   Jeff

You can use kermit scripts or tip.  Send me mail if you want an
example kerit script.

expect and other utilties are included with various ppp
implementations.

We really need a utility that will reconnect a slip line when the line
hangs for various reasons.  Some of that support could be written into
slattach, but alot of it could be done with a perl script alone.  Rich