Subject: Re: Dialin
To: Neil A. Carson <neil@causality.com>
From: berg <Peter.Berg@ww.tu-freiberg.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/03/1997 08:21:25
Neil A. Carson wrote:
> 
> I configured up a system for a slip dialin a year or two back. Didn't do
> it in the standad way though!
> 
> First of all, I started a getty on the serial port, and entered into the
> gettytab for it to run at 19200 baud. Created a user called 'slip' and
> then got this user to run a program called 'slurp' (or something like
> that) as its default login, which would start up a slip session on the
> current tty.
> 
> This was a quick solution, but probably not the recommended way of doing
> it... I'm sure with ppp something different has to be done.

Yep, I did it the same way, but it didn't work for other baud rates then
1200.

ciao, peter.