From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 12:57:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA13082 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA13045 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA09589; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 20:42:45 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199712152042.UAA09589@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Burton Sampley cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how get user ppp to talk to slirp -P In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Dec 1997 04:38:29 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 20:42:45 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Right after I sent this message, a workable answer popped into my mind. I > just created an alias in my .cshrc file (alias slirp slirp -P). This > allowed me to connect to the remote host, but I had routing problems. One > minor change to my /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup file and the bits started flowing. > > Sorry for the long post. It's very frustrating to ask for help and then > figure it out right after you hit the appropriate commands to send your > message. To get the space in your login script, you've got to escape the escape - ie, `\\s'. The `\\' is parsed by the command parser and reduced to a single `\', letting the chat interpreter get a hold of it and in turn interpret the actual `\s'. Perhaps this stuff should be in the FAQ :-) > - burton - > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....