> I have read through Hubert's Networking FAQ and other postings in the
> NetBSD Newsgroups, but can find nothing to cover this problem. The only
> thing I can do is completely shutdown NetBSD and restart from scratch.
> So I am looking for advice on the following two topics.
> 
> 1. Is there a way to gracefully shutdown a SLIP or PPP connection. This
> 	could be usefull even if the modem has not lost the connection to
> 	allow switching connections.

Simply kill the slattach process.  It really is that simple.
 
> 2. If the modem looses connection, is it possible to restablish the modem
> 	connection and then let SLIP continue operation?

Dunno ... never tried.
 
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