Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Dip is for an old package called 'dip'. It was sort of line 'pon' I think. Since the
> package has long since gone away I find it annoying we're still stuck with the group.
On the contrary, dip is still available in slink. I use it to dial up
my ISP since it's the only package that does SLIP.
Noel
~ $ dpkg --status dip
Package: dip
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 202
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
Version: 3.3.7p-2
Replaces: netstd (<= 2.14)
Depends: libc6, liblockdev0g
Conffiles:
/etc/diphosts 7cbf2c9d02415cd75fafac56a6c62dc8
/etc/slip.dip 0907d6a1717749ea2827498f5bfa4ec5
/etc/ppp.dip 4fbc6b28e998e7fa098d08e0ab1efae4
Description: Tool for handling SLIP/PPP dialup IP connections
This program handles the connections needed for dialup IP links, like
SLIP or PPP. It can handle both incoming and outgoing connections,
using password security for incoming connections.
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