This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
bomb out. Unfortunately, FreeBSD's sio driver and certain internal
modems don't get along very well, which can cause the serial port to
wedge until it is closed and reopened.
Add new variable, connect-max-attempts, default = 1 (to mimic previous
behavior). If > 1, will try up to "n" times to dial remote site before
aborting.
