On Jan 8,  2:41pm, Alan Bair wrote:
> 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.

 Either kill the slattach command or try 'ifconfig sl0 down'.

> 2. If the modem looses connection, is it possible to restablish the modem
> 	connection and then let SLIP continue operation?

 Yes, use normal modem/terminal-program to restablish the connection and
then start slip on the other side. The probable problem will be that your 
slip-provider offers dynamic IP and not static IP-Numbers. Hence you
need to reset/reconfigure the entire network config.

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Markus Illenseer