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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] What is SLIP?????
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Date: 1 Feb 93 00:03:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jlu@cs.umr.edu's message of Sun, 31 Jan 1993 22:13:34 GMT
In article <1993Jan31.221334.1330@umr.edu> jlu@cs.umr.edu ( Eric Jui-Lin Lu ) writes:
I know SLIP is a big word. But, I have little knowledge about it.
In the very near future, I'll buy a new 14.4 modem. And certainly,
I want to give SLIP a try. So, here are the questions:
1. Which modem, in your opinion, is the best buy? Please provide
brand name and model number if any. I need a stable modem
which can make me run in 386bsd/DOS/OS/2.
14.4 Kb v.32bis/v.42bis modems are a good buy and work fine with
386BSD as long as you get one with a 16550 UART onboard. That's what
I use under 386BSD.
2. What is SLIP? Where can I get the binaries for 386bsd 0.1?
What can SLIP give me? I also heard something about xremote.
What is it?
the 0.1 distribution includes slip support. 'man slattach' describes
how you start up the client side of the connection.
People are working on enhancements. An example is in
/usr/packages/dialup-slip on ref.tfs.com. Rich