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From: porter@fozzie (Ron Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: another stupid SLIP question
Date: 23 Aug 1994 19:20:17 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
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Yes, its me again. I'm still trying to get SLIP running on a
486Freebsd1.1.5.1R machine. Some people have given some appriciated time
and suggestions, but i'm still struggling. Anyway i'me also apperently
not doing a good job explaining my situation, because i've got responses
as to how to set up the machine to dial into a slipserver. But what i
want is to set up the SLIPserver itself. What my situation is right now
is that i have a Macintosh at home along with the 486FreeBSD machine.
I will eventually move the FreeBSD machine to work where i will use a
modem to dialup and connect with slip. But for now at least i'm just
trying to make a SLIP connection between the two with a serial cable. 
I've following the FAQ and most of it seems straight forward, modifing
files and such. One problem is that it's not real clear to me when i'm
doing this which steps are for the server and which are for the client.
This probibly doesn't matter but it might help my understanding of what
i'm doing though. Can anybody give an outline of what it takes to just
set up the server? Also are there different ways of doing it? Some of
the mail i've received onn slip from other netters has had quotes that
read somthing like " this is what i did" or "this is my approach".
  I would also like to know how the machine handles letting another
machine connect. Meaning once the server is set up correctly will there
be a procsess or daeman runing in the background watching the serial
port for a connection request? If so will a "ps" or other command show
if this is actually working.
D
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  I would also like to know how the machine handles the se
doing 
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