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From: jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com (Jon Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help with SLIP
Date: 13 Mar 1995 21:04:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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J Wunsch (j@narcisa.sax.de) wrote:
: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@flotsm.ozy.dec.com> wrote:
: >1: slattch -c -h -s 57600 /dev/tty01
: >2: ifconfig sl1 inet wally mtu 1500 up
: ifconfig sl1 inet wally remotesite [netmask 0xblahblah]
: ^^^^^^^^^^
: this is important
: (just curious, why don'tya use sl0?)
This was in fact the problem. slattach does
not use sl-0 and sl-1 it uses sl-1 and sl-2!!!
so I was getting confused as to which
sl0/1 unit to use for routing and ifnet
numbering.
After I realised this everything worked
just fine !!
Just out of interest I have the following
settings which work perfectly for all
internet services attempted including
ftp, rlogin, telnet, netscape, mail,
tracerout, ping etc:
------------------------------------------
start.slip script:
route -q flush
ifconfig sl0 delete
ifconfig sl1 delete
slattach -a -s 57600 -h /dev/ttyd1
ifconfig sl0 inet wally_20$1 mtu 256 compress up
route add default wally_20$1
netstat -r
netstat -i
ifconfig sl0
------------------------------------------
netstat -i produces:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
lp0* 1500 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0
lo0 65532 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0
lo0 65532 loop localhost 0 0 0 0 0
ppp0* 1500 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0
ppp1* 1500 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0
sl0 256 <Link> 2251 0 3183 0 0
sl0 256 16 wally_203 2251 0 3183 0 0
sl1* 552 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0
wally%/root#
------------------------------------------
and netstat -r produces:
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
default wally_203 UGS 2 3251 sl0
localhost localhost UH 0 0 lo0
wally%/root#
------------------------------------------
and ifconfig sl0 produces:
sl0: flags=d011<UP,POINTOPOINT,LINK0,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 256
inet 16.153.192.203 --> 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000
wally%/root#
------------------------------------------
stop.slip script is:
kill `ps ax | grep "[0-9] slattach " | awk '{print $1}'`
route -q flush
ifconfig sl0 delete
------------------------------------------
Hope this helps others.
: --
: cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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