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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU!stas From: stas@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Stan Malyshev) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: curious SLIP situation.. Date: 5 Oct 1993 06:58:13 GMT Organization: University of California, at Berkeley Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <28r5u5$hjo@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po.eecs.berkeley.edu I am attempting to establish a SLIP connection between a FreeBSD box at home and a campus machine, by dialing in to a local net provider, telnetting to campus, and then initiating SLIP on both ends, etc.. First of all.. can you see any obvious problems with this? Can such a link be established via a telnet session? Do telnet escape chars need to be unset? What about shell escapes? Anyway, the campus end was set up by a friend who is using Linux (successfully) to SLIP in.. and my end is set up in a standard manner (or so I think): slattach sl0 -a -s 38400 -r /dev/null /dev/sio01 ifconfig inet 128.32.138.14 128.32.138.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add default 128.32.138.2 and the /etc/hosts entries are there, etc.. Now, when I try to ping from the BSD to its SLIP provider, it doesn't work - I can see the packets being sent by the modem, yet nothing comes in return. Similarly, telnet-ing to the host or any machine in the /etc/hosts produces a 'Trying..' message and an eventual timeout. I connect to the provider by using tip, and suspend tip right after initiating sliplogin on the campus end, and then I run the 3 commands above. This is my first time trying to set up SLIP.. and I've no idea what's wrong. Any suggestions are much appreciated. Stan