Dialup SLIP

[Bill Heiser]

In article <1991May02.174220.6889 at nstar.rn.com> larry at nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>roh at mozart.cs.colostate.edu (Lucas Roh) writes:
>
>
>>Since I do not know whether I am ignorant or not, I would like to ask if
>>it is possible to dialup another Unix box and maintain a SLIP connection.
>
>yes - we do  this on a regular basis --
>

How is this done?  You somehow initiate a dial, establish a connection, 
and then you can do TCP/IP stuff?  like telnet, rlogin, ftp, etc?  What
hardware and software is required for this?  I don't think SLIP comes
with ESIX;  is it available elsewhere for a "reasonable" price?



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