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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!news!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak!brian From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help with SLIP Date: 21 Jul 93 23:23:57 Organization: None Lines: 72 Message-ID: <BRIAN.93Jul21232357@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <1993Jul21.030137.27912@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk In-reply-to: lafollet@astro.ocis.temple.edu's message of 21 Jul 93 03:01:37 GMT In article <1993Jul21.030137.27912@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> lafollet@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Paul Lafollette) writes: I have 386BSD running on a machine in my office (call it my.office.temple.edu) and at my home (call it my.home.temple.edu). I want to set up a SLIP connection between them. MAchine in the office has an ethernet connection. Would someone please be kind enough to tell me in boring detail what I need to do? Keystroke by keystroke for each machine is probably the level of help I need... i've been messing with this for the past week and have gotten almost nowhere. Thanks in advance. Paul Ok, first of all: I know the feeling - I suffered the same about 2 months ago. The idea is (overview) that you make a serial line connection to the host, set the line discipline, and tell your router to use this interface as your gateway. You also should set the gateway up as a nameserver. Sounds easy ? - well it is if you've done it before. The _usual_ (is this true ?) way of doing this is as follows: Both server and client must know eachothers inet addresses. Set these up in /etc/hosts with lines saying 11.22.33.44 host.my.domain.name host 11.22.33.55 client.my.domain.name client where 11.22.33.?? is your inet number, and the following name is the full machine name (and is followed by any number of aliases). SERVER: Create a login - usually Sclientname - and run `sliplogin` as its shell. I've looked at the docs for sliplogin, and it seems fairly straightforward. I havn't actually set up a server. CLIENT: Set up /etc/resolv.conf to say the following (for the nameserver) domain client.my.domain.name nameserver 11.22.33.55 ** traditional method ** Log on to the server. This is usually done via kermit or some such program. Exit the program (or backround it if your line wants to drop once the device is closed). Run `slattach /dev/comport` for whatever "comport" is. Run `ifconfig inet sl0 clientname servername netmask 0xffffff00` Run `route add default servername`. "servername" is your server and "clientname" is your client. It should now be possible to `ping host` ** my method ** Configure /etc/remote Configure /etc/host.dial Run `slip host`. /etc/remote contains an extended `tip` entry. /etc/host.dial contains a login script (and is named in /etc/remote). Oh yes, don't forget to have a line in your kernel config saying pseudo-device sl 1 I uploaded the slip package a while ago (to several archives), but was unaware (ok I'm stupid) of needing to notify the postmaster. They've probably all been removed now. Hope this explains things - is this stuff in the FAQ yet ? -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>