A Simple Approach for newbies... This is how to run DIP in terminal mode: user ~/> dip -t -v -v for debugging output DIP> port cua1 DIP> speed 38400 DIP> term start terminal mode atd p31420952 dial your SLIP server Connect .... modem will report when connected Welcome ...... server will print something and ts2>_ gives you a prompt ts2> SLIP you tell the server that you want to use SLIP services Your IP Number is 130.149.10.100 this is for dynamic IP assignment Cntrl-] hit this key to return to local mode DIP> get $locip 130.149.10.100 set up your assigned IP number DIP> get $rmtip 130.149.1.10 or whatever IP number the server will have where you dial in DIP> default set up route with assigned IP number DIP> mode CSLIP finally start up SLIP or CSLIP session this will bring you back to the shell root ~/# ping 130.149.1.10 try if connection is okay PING 130.149.1.10 ...... hooray :-) -------------- I think from this point one can be sure that everything seems to be installed properly and one will understand sample.dip better and can customize the script for their needs. Please feel free to do with my short text what you want. Thank you for your time. -- Kang-Jin Lee lee@tengu.in-berlin.de ----------------------------------- And note, that instead of IP addresses you can use host names, and then substitute "$remote" for "$rmtip", and "$local" for "$locip"... OK? uri@watson.ibm.com