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Re: Using Linux as a SLIP router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Schenk)
Mon Sep 18 18:13:29 1995
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 17 Sep 1995 23:11:34 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:37:36 -0400
From: "Eric Schenk" <schenk@cs.toronto.edu>
Louis Frayser <frayser@earthlink.net> writes:
>On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > exit. That's OK for a dial-up connection, but for leased circuits we
>> > need a program which will hang onto the interface regardless. Even
>> > slattach has problems: unless the circuit is up at the time it starts,
>> > setting the line to SLIP mode fails. I could (and will) hack it a bit
>> > so that it just keeps trying to set SLIP mode until it succeeds, but
>> > is there a more elegant solution?
>>
>> Not at the moment. I'd be glad to receive one.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>
>Would diald work here? It will keep trying the line until it can connect.
>Diald can also set a route to the remote end once a connection is made.
I know of at least one person who is using diald for just this purpose.
It seems that his modems are sometimes "hanging up" even though the
circuit is a leased line, so he really wanted some way to reconnect
automagically when that happened. The only thing different from a
stanard diald setup is that your phone dialing command is abbreviated
to "ATDT" with no number (i.e. just tell the modem to pick up, and
it will be connected).
-- eric
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Eric Schenk schenk@cs.toronto.edu
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
