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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,mcs.general
Subject: slattach -u configure.script
Date: 8 May 1995 15:51:29 -0500
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation
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Message-ID: <3om08h$c97@Mars.mcs.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.mcs.com
I'm using FreeBSD 2.0-Release on my main machine at home. I'm trying
to set up a script so that my girlfriend can put up the interface to
my IP provider with one command and I'm having some troubl in my
script determining which interface I need to configure with ifconfig.
I have two slip interfaces that I need to set up. The first one is a
link over my modem to my IP provider. My second one is a local link to
my laptop that I start out with the sliplogin suite. I'm using
slattach and ifconfig to put up the first connection. Sliplogin calls
a script to to configure the interface when my laptop's slip user logs in.
The Sliplogin suite has a configuration option which specifies the
interface at login time so that side isn't a problem but if I run
slattach like this:
$ slattach -a -h -u configure.script -s 115200 /dev/cuaa1
The man page says that slattach should call the configuration script
with the name of the interface when the interface changes like this:
configure.script old_unit new_unit
It seems as though this call does not get made when the interface
first comes up. This is a problem because my script has no way to
figure out which slip interface it's using to connect to my
provider. I can fix this for myself from the source code but doesn't
putting up the interface count as changing it?
C.
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Christopher Sean Hilton E-mail: chilton@mcs.com
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