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From: nelson@SUN.SOE.CLARKSON.EDU (Russ Nelson)
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Subject: SLIP Encoding in the packet drivers
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Date: 16 Mar 89 03:27:33 GMT
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   Regarding dialing, would an establish_connection()/terminate_connection() be
   enough more general to make it worthwhile to add?  It could take a fairly
   large array as an argument, to be interpreted in a way that depended on the
   MAC layer in use.  I don't know enough about X.25 to know if this is enough
   for that kind of connection-oriented environment, or not.

I fear that that would not suffice if interaction was required to set up the
SLIP link.  Can we hear from someone at umich or ucdavis?  I am pretty sure
that they both support SLIP dialins.

What might be workable for SLIP at least is to specify the string in a method
similar to UUCP's sys line (send this, wait for this, send this, wait
for this, etc.)
--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])
If you can, help others.
If you can't, at least don't hurt others--the Dalai Lama