How do you use Dial-up SLIP?

[Chet Wood]

It appears SLIP was designed for people who want to extend their IP
universe from work to home. I'm sure that it works fairly well for
this. But now organizations can use it to connect with the Internet.
The logistics of using it for this seem awkward. Would those who are
making use of this service kindly tell me how they make it work?

Here's how I suppose it works:

User dials up the network service provider using tip, and logs in with
a name and password. 

In another window, you run "slip-attach" to configure the interface.

Then you do your ftp, or whatever.

Then you kill the slip-attach process with -HUP and somehow get the
modem to hang up.

There are several things wrong with this picture. 

1. Am I supposed to tell all our users our login name and password on
our providers equipment? Seems like a security risk to me.

2. Who pays the phone bill when a user forgets to hang up after a
session?

[ A/UX 2.0 - specific ]
3. Based on my very limited experimentation, killing slip-attach (or
whatever it's called) on the Mac sometimes leaves grunge around so that it
cannot be run again without rebooting the machine.

It seems to me, because of these things, that it would be more than
worth it to use a leased line for SLIP access, unless someone can tell
me of some effective workarounds...

Thanks...

Chet
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