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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!miff From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SLIP problem Date: 26 Sep 94 09:51:29 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 50 Message-ID: <miff.780573089@apanix.apana.org.au> References: <35pg52$b7k@umd5.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au Keywords: slip,help leonard@sa4server.umd.edu (Leonard Nisenoff) writes: >I'm having problems getting slip to run correctly. The connection is >made and lasts for about 10 seconds, then dies. I do the following: >1. Establish the modem link using Kermit, then escape back to my pc. >2. "slattach /dev/tty00" Ok. the slattach line I use is -a -h -s 38400 tty01 >3. "ifconfig sl0 inet <clientIP> <serverIP> netmask 255.255.255.0 Use names, it's easier to remember. >4. "route add 131.118.0.0 <serverIP> >5. "route add default <serverIP> You don't need 4 if you have 5, everything will be passed off to it anyway. Also, you'll get a net route for the serverIP address entered when you start the interface. I've had strange results acting as a gateway if I don't ifconfig the gateway and set the default route _before_ I bring up any other interfaces. >I can finger and sometimes I can telnet, but things seem to die quickly. >I've tried using rts/cts and no flow control, but it still dies. What happens when it dies? Slattach drops out, or transmission stops, or what? >--Leonard (leonard@sa4server.umd.edu) For the knowledgeable SLIPpers reading this : I've been experimenting with automgically healing SLIP links, with some serious problems : if you use slattach -r <redialcommand>, the redial command is run with the serial interface still in the SLIP line discipline. if you use slattach -f, with no -r, it _won't_ exit when it loses carrier. I know I have the source, I'd just like to know if this has been done over already. -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #