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From: shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD - please help me setup SLIP
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 05:28:29 GMT
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Hi. I ran into similar problems. It turned out that I needed to
reverse the order of the arguments to ifconfig :

	ifconfig sl0 inet ip.num.local ip.num.remote

Hope this helps.

-coranth

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