
Welcome to SLIPup version 0.10!

What you have found is a couple of crude shell scripts that perform three
things:

1.  Automatically establish a SLIP connection (using DIP) based on run levels.

2.  Monitor the connection and attempt to restablish it if it goes down.

3.  Make me rich from writing free software!

Well... two out of three ain't bad!

There are three files needed with SLIPup:

    SLIP.up
	SLIP.down
	inittab.sample
	
You will also need DIP and a working DIP script.

SLIP.up - this file, by default, is called at run level 6.  It calls DIP and
          establishes a connection to the remote end.  It also monitors the
		  line by fingering somebody@somewhere.  If the connection is lost,
		  it will kill the current DIP process and attempt to restablish it.
		  If the connection cannot be restablished in a certain number of
		  attempts, the default is 5, SLIP.up aborts, by changing to run
		  level 5.  This in turn, calls SLIP.down.
		  
SLIP.down - this file simply cleans up after SLIP.up.

inittab.sample - This is a sample entry in /etc/inittab for 'n1' and 'n2'.
                 n1 is called at run level 5, which calls SLIP.down.  n2 is
				 called at run level 6, which calls SLIP.up.  On most
				 Slackware systems, runlevel 6 is reserved to start up xdm.
				 I've moved my call for xdm to runlevel 5, leaving 6 for
				 SLIPup.  If you make run level 6 as 'initdefault', your
				 SLIP connection will be established on bootup.
				 
SLIP.up and SLIP.down log their activity to /var/adm/ISP.log, the system
default.

This is not much of a README file, but then there's not alot to SLIPup either!

SLIPup can be found at
ftp.siriuscc.com:/pub/Linux/network/slip/SLIPup/SLIPup-0.10.tar.gz and at
sunsite.unc.edu.

If you have any questions, comments, problems, suggestions, etc., please
email to dminor@siriuscc.com.  Also, finger info@siriuscc.com and check on
our "Linux On-Line" project!
