Step 1: Using your favorite serial communications package, dial in
to your service provider, log in, and issue whatever commands are
required to change their terminal server to SLIP mode. How this is
done varies from service provider to service provider and is beyond
the scope of this document. Check with your service provider for
more details.
Once you have logged on and enabled SLIP mode, exit your
telecommunications software WITHOUT HANGING UP THE MODEM - this is
VERY IMPORTANT! Any telecommunications package worth the floppy on
which it comes will have a "save without hangup" command, or will
prompt you when you exit to ask whether it should hang up or not.
Change to the directory where you have installed your packet driver
and load it. An example command line for CSLIPPER is
to your service provider, log in, and issue whatever commands are
required to change their terminal server to SLIP mode. How this is
done varies from service provider to service provider and is beyond
the scope of this document. Check with your service provider for
more details.
Once you have logged on and enabled SLIP mode, exit your
telecommunications software WITHOUT HANGING UP THE MODEM - this is
VERY IMPORTANT! Any telecommunications package worth the floppy on
which it comes will have a "save without hangup" command, or will
prompt you when you exit to ask whether it should hang up or not.
Change to the directory where you have installed your packet driver
and load it. An example command line for CSLIPPER is
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