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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SLIP configuration
Date: 27 Jan 1995 02:55:43 -0000
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rkohli@richmond.infi.net (rkohli@infi.net) wrote:
: Greetings,
: If you have a FreeBSD box not connected to ethernet but hooked up to
: another UNIX box over slip can you please, please ( pretty please ) mail me
: your "netstat -r" or "netstat -nr" output along with your /etc/netstart and your/etc/hosts files, I would really appreciate it.
: I'm having no luck trying to get our SLIP line working. I can login to the slip server, the people on the other can see me login in but I can't ping the slip-server. I have pretty much followed the directions in the SLIP FAQ other noteson SLIP in the main FAQ and the TCP/IP book.
I'm in a bit of a rush, but you probably need something like this:
ifconfig sl0 inet myhost targethost netmask 0xffffff00
route add default targethost
my routing table looks like this:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
default gate UGS 0 300 sl0
localhost localhost UH 0 2 lo0
gate awfulhak UH 1 66 sl0
158.152.17 link#1 UC 0 0 ed0
awfulhak 0:0:e8:c8:8e:95 UHL 1 74 lo0
tirnanog 0:0:e8:c8:92:31 UHLS 0 0 ed0
224 link#1 UCS 0 0 ed0
where gate and awfulhak are the only relevant bits in /etc/hosts.
Send me email if you've still got problems.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....