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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dialup SLIP
Message-ID: <1991May16.134242.5574@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 16 May 91 13:42:42 GMT
References: <1991May3.214317.3788@unixland.uucp> <1991May7.191913.1862@everex.uucp> <1991May9.231059.591@unixland.uucp> <1991May13.165255.23796@everex.uucp> <1991May15.230057.21436@watson.ibm.com>
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Organization: NSTAR, Indiana's BBS 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
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uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal) writes:

>The best would be - if I just could run something like "slconfig -detach", 
>or whatever, and the port would become free for cu, uucp, etc...  And of 
>course, when I need SLIP -  I want to be able to do smth like "slattach"
>and be off with it...Does it provide such capabilities?

that is how ISC's 2.21 works - the port can be shared with SLIP,
along with normal UUCP, shell and BBS users - but the problem with ISC
is that it only supports on SLIP connection at any given time - 

On the other hand, we have Dell SVR4 here - and it supports up to 
16 concurrent SLIP connections at any one time - but we haven't tried
it (as of yet).

-- 
      Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
                         HST/PEP/V.32/v.32bis/v.42bis 
                        regional UUCP mapping coordinator 
               {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!larry}