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From: Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Anyone Working On "User-Friendly" SLIP Or PPP?
Message-ID: <42093@cup.portal.com>
Date: 7 May 91 18:34:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: cup.42093
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Does anyone know of a SLIP or PPP implementation for PCs that can
be made user-friendly?  In other words, I want a product that will
automatically dialup the correct number when an attempt is made to
connect to a particular TCP name, *and* I want this product to
negotiate the terminal connection to provide any necessary passwords
and then fade into the background without intervention from the user.
It's a little hard to imagine delivering to a naive end-user a 
package that requires him to enter in Hayes dialing commands to
connect to a remote site and have to know and remember passwords
to authorize his entry (the end-user probably shouldn't have access
to these passwords in the first place).  Please note that I'm not
looking for a router-based solution.  I need something that is
packet-driver-based or something that works with an existing commercial
TCP/IP stack.

Thanks,
Will Estes        Internet: Will@cup.portal.com
                  UUCP: apple!cup.portal.com!Will