
				README 1.00

    SLIP scripts for Net-2E beta 1 and beyond, 0.99pl12 and beyond.  Will
    not likely work on earlier releases.  You also need to have the
    special /proc filesystem mounted (it is used by the scripts to interface
    to running processes)

    These programs are provided as is... if you find a bug and have a fix
    please feel free to email it to me (my signature is at the end of
    this file), but do not expect a response.  I'm too busy to be doing
    this :-)  but I think it will be helpful to power-slip users.  I
    will most likely ignore enhancement requests entirely.

    THIS STUFF IS MEANT FOR HARDCORE SLIP USERS THAT NEED ROBUST SLIP
    SCRIPTS AND CAN BULL THEIR WAY THROUGH NEW STUFF WITHOUT ANY HELP.

    Furthermore, these scripts assume net-2E beta 1 (i.e. the first beta
    release after alpha 4).  A lot of things will not work with earlier
    networking releaes.  I am operating these scripts with Linux 0.99pl13,
    they should work with 0.99pl12 or above.

    The EXPECT program is included and highly recommended for modem
    dialup/connect scripts.  You can also use your own programs to
    handle dialing, neither the scripts nor the dudiscdev executable
    cares, really.   I do not know whether it will work with DIP... DIP
    really isn't modular enough to be easily integrated into this system.

    Many people have limited memory and/or disk space.  If you really want
    to screw with these scripts and programs to reduce memory usage, I
    suggest you get it working before you try to optimize it.  run-time
    real-memory usage is not very great once paging settles down, but about
    1MB of swap is required.

    These files are assumed to be in a directory called "/etc/slip".  You
    may also have to futz with the path.

    README		This file

    INSTALL		File describing installation

    daily		example daily administration script

    dboff		turn off massive debugging (if network debugging
    			compiled into the kernel) (script)

    dbon		turn on massive debugging (if network debugging
    			compiled into the kernel) (script)

    dudiscdev		slN interface attach / detach / CD monitor
    dudiscdev.c

    expect		expect executable (needs libc4.4.2).  Hopefully doesn't
    			need anything else.

    expect.man		manual for 'expect'

    indebug		run by by dbon/dboff, turn on and off debugging
    indebug.c

    notty		run other programs detached, leave stdin, stdout
    notty.c		and/or stderr open as specified by options.

    rc.local		example rc.local showing portion that starts up
    			network.

    rc.net		example rc.net showing network startup, run from
    			rc.local

    rc.slip		example rc.slip showing slip-specific startup, run
    			from rc.net

			SLIP CONNECTING / MAIN LOOP

    doslip		main interface command script / loop

    slip0.cfg		example config, hardwired connection
    slip1.cfg		example config, dialup / login
    slip2.cfg		example config, direct connect no login

    			EXPECT SCRIPTS

    slip1.xp		dialup / login example using the 'expect' language,
    			a tcl extension.

    slip2.xp		dialup example without login stuff



    Matthew Dillon		dillon@moonshot.west.oic.com
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