Dialup SLIP

[Rich Braun]

To continue this thread (in, admittedly, the wrong newsgroup), I'm curious
about the use of SLIP over non-dedicated lines.  A local network services
company is planning to install some modems and sell Internet access via
SLIP dialups.  I might be interested in using his service, but he's not
particularly familiar with the technology and I don't want to get involved
with something inordinately complicated or limited in its use.

Suppose I want to do two things:  (1) poll a couple of systems regularly,
and be able to issue 'ftp' or 'rlogin' requests on demand, and (2) make
an archive directory available for anonymous login from outside our
company.  Can I do this in such a way as to utilize the phone line (which
costs money every hour it's used) only while a connection is active?
Each side would have to activate an auto-dialer when a connection request
comes in, if there aren't any existing connections.

Can I do this so as to allow non-SLIP users access to 'getty' login
sessions?  I'm working with a limited number of phone lines (2), and
want to do this under AIX but if SCO Unix can handle it better I might
use that instead.

-rich