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From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: FreBSD Dialer
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:

> > Hello, is there a TCP/IP dialer available for FreeBSD?
> 
> No.  TCP and IP do not define dialing, so there is no such thing as a
> TCP/IP dialer.  If you mean a dialup IP link, yes, there are several.
> Look for the PPP and SLIP implementations.
> 
> If this isn't what you're talking about, could you please explain what
> you want to do?
> 
> Greg

Maybe he just wants to dial the modem and then make a ppp or slip
connection.

Kermit (in the ports collection) will dial the modem.
ppp uses a chat script to dial the modem (I think).
cu also dials the modem
the dip program, which creates a slip connection...actually I'm not
sure how it dials the modem.

	Annelise