Re: dialing modem as normal user
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:14:16PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Peter Crawford wrote:
> > For sake of interest, does anyone know the etymology
> > of dip?
> Dynamic IP? DIal-uP? :)
Close, from an archived manpage at <http://www.rt.com/man/dip.8.html>:
NAME
dip - handle dialup IP connections
I'm not sure how long ago dip disappeared from Debian, the manpage is
dated 1995.
Cheers,
dt
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