Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip:13650 comp.unix.aux:3160 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!arc!chet From: chet@Advansoft.COM (Chet Wood) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.aux Subject: How do you use Dial-up SLIP? Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 23:45:10 GMT Sender: @advansoft.com Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 43 It appears SLIP was designed for people who want to extend their IP universe from work to home. I'm sure that it works fairly well for this. But now organizations can use it to connect with the Internet. The logistics of using it for this seem awkward. Would those who are making use of this service kindly tell me how they make it work? Here's how I suppose it works: User dials up the network service provider using tip, and logs in with a name and password. In another window, you run "slip-attach" to configure the interface. Then you do your ftp, or whatever. Then you kill the slip-attach process with -HUP and somehow get the modem to hang up. There are several things wrong with this picture. 1. Am I supposed to tell all our users our login name and password on our providers equipment? Seems like a security risk to me. 2. Who pays the phone bill when a user forgets to hang up after a session? [ A/UX 2.0 - specific ] 3. Based on my very limited experimentation, killing slip-attach (or whatever it's called) on the Mac sometimes leaves grunge around so that it cannot be run again without rebooting the machine. It seems to me, because of these things, that it would be more than worth it to use a leased line for SLIP access, unless someone can tell me of some effective workarounds... Thanks... Chet -- Chet Wood ~ (408)727-3357 X269 chet@Advansoft.Com . Advansoft Research Corporation arc!chet@apple.COM . 4301 Great America Parkway, 6th floor apple!arc!chet . Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA