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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!barile From: barile@netcom.com (Don Barile) Subject: SLIP advice.... Message-ID: <barileCpBB6A.9qH@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 04:30:09 GMT Lines: 65 Subject: SLIP advice.... Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Summary: Keywords: OK, I freely admit to being newbie-come-lately BSD sys admin-for myself and just trying to learn the ropes. I'm running BSDI 1.1 on a 486 DX/2 66 with adequate capacities, using a USR Sportster. I've set up a CSLIP connection (dialup from NETCOM) and have got it to run on a Mac. The connection works fine. I've read a bit in ORA's TCP/IP Net Admin, and every README, FAQ, How_To and Lizard book I can Gopher, Archie, ftp or check out of a library. Using TIP I can dial into a shell account or the SLIP account. However, after using configsl from BSDI, I can ping the gateway address of netcom, but not a specific nameserver. Is this because of my failure to configure for CSLIP? (It is a CSLIP account) I can't seem to find where/how to configure for CSLIP. Also, when entering my IP address in /etc/hosts - should it be <my.IP.address.here> <my_machine_name> <my_domain_name> and *then* the gateway name and address followed by the default name and address of netcom? configsl doesn't give any option to enter a secondary address, should hosts be configured first or is it not necessary at all? Am I warm? Am I neglecting to set up a file? Can someone walk me through this in twenty five words or less? I've tried this also, a) dial in with TIP to the CSLIP account b) suspend TIP using ~! c) ifconfig sl0 inet 199.35.141.27 192.100.81.110 (the second address is the _gateway_ address) d) slattach /dev/tty01 19200 e) can ping the gateway, but that's all. BTW, telnet hangs up just before the login prompt, I assume this is because of not having configured for CSLIP, and it's croaking on the compression at that point, correct? ******************************** out of sequence? missing parameter? haven't bought enough O'Reilly books yet? Any help would be great, Don barile@netcom.com ***************** -- __ Don Barile barile@netcom.com