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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: where to get SLIP
Date: 13 Aug 94 04:21:58
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: porter@fozzie's message of 13 Aug 1994 04:28:11 GMT

In article <32hi4r$dbm@news.doit.wisc.edu> porter@fozzie (Ron Porter) writes:

 *   I would like to install SLIP on my FreeBSD machine. I don't know where
 * to find SLIP, it dosen't seem to be in the packages list. I would like
 * to be able to log into the SLIPserver from my MAC Centris 610. I already
 * have a client on the MAC so i can connect to my work via modem. I want
 * to be able to log into the FreeBSD/486 by just switching from the modem
 * to the PC by switch box. Any other advice will be GREATLY appriciated.

You mean you want to use the serial cable to set up a slip link
between your FreeBSD box and your Mac?  Well, then take a look at the
man page of "sliplogin", that is what you need, I think (I'm not
really an expert on the server side of slip...sorry).

By the way, slip support is already included in the base system,
that's why you didn't find a package!  (Try "man -k slip" next time
you run into a similar problem.)

Satoshi