Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:26:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreBSD Dialer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970923232438.1624B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970924095029.16797@lemis.com>
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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
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