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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!samsung!transfer!bu.edu!rpi!lingy From: lingy@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Danzig Frique) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Unique SLIP situation Summary: How to get SLIP working in a unique situation Keywords: SLIP, config Message-ID: <xh0xadm@rpi.edu> Date: 7 Aug 92 19:22:29 GMT Reply-To: lingy@rpi.edu Organization: Somewhere Special Lines: 52 Nntp-Posting-Host: aix02.ecs.rpi.edu Hi there fellow SLIP users, I don't seem to be able to get slip running. My 386 was able to use SLIP on messedupdos running KA9Q and CUTCP, but it doesn't work in BSD. Our campus set up is like this. We dial in to the terminal servers and then we activate the SLIP device by a command %slip. And if we have bootp it will make use of bootp to configure the SLIP characteristics of the connection. If not, (on certain versions of KA9Q that i have used, I can get the ip address without using bootp before typing '%slip'. And then if i put it into my setup file before I run ka9q each time(i know it's a pain having to re-edit your autoexec.net file to get slip running, but then it runs at least and i hate living with a regular terminal after using so much SLIP 8-(. for my cutcp or the ka9q package these lines were what i used to configure my system : domain add 128.83.1.33 domain add 128.113.1.5 if config sl0 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 route add default sl0 route add 255.255.255.255 sl0 bootp sl0 on 386BSD i have tried: nohup slattach /dev/com2 38400 (after i have used 'tip' to call up the terminal server and typing %slip then stopping 'tip' with ~C-z) ifconfig sl0 whatever.i.get.from.terminal.server route add default sl0 (bombs immediately) route add 255.255.255.255 sl0 (it doesn't like 255.255.255.255) also have tried ifconfig sl0 whatever.i.get.fromserver netmask 0xffffff00 route add host_of_some_system_i_want_to_connect Have tried lots of different combinations of the above and it doesn't seem to work, terminal dial in slip is currently firewalled so i could do tcp/ip services with my *.rpi.edu domain, but then even this isn't possible in 386bsd, maybe some utilities are missing? bootp? Everything above was done with ip addresses which are correct(wish i could use names though) 8-) Hope that someone can get me running SLIP on this magnificent unix, and i can basically throw out all my dos stuff. Right now I have to use CUTCP to write this message 8-( Because tip has no terminal emulation that works with the RS/6000s (or could i use my termcap entry on the RS/6000s? 8-) ) Last of all, I hope that a FAQ will be official soon 8-) Dan Kudos to Bill Jolitz again for 386BSD 8-)