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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: startslip help? Date: 28 Sep 1995 01:09:14 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 22 Message-ID: <44csjq$12q@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <44akpl$gtu@netnews.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.jraynard.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <44akpl$gtu@netnews.upenn.edu>, Darrel Herbst <dherbst@gradient.cis.upenn.edu> wrote: >I can get startslip to log me in, but it doesn't set the default >routing. Can anyone give me some pointers on how to write the scripts >needed to do this? > >For example, I've gotten startslip to do the 'ifconfig sl0 up', but >'ifconfig sl0' returns: inet 0.0.0.0 --> 0.0.0.0 netmask 0x0. If I >try to ping stuff I get 'no route to host'. ifconfig sl0 inet <your machine> <remote machine> netmask 0xffffff00 metric 1 up route add default <remote machine> Another useful diagnostic is 'netstat -nr' to display the routing table. (The netmask may not be correct, but I believe SLIP ignores it anyway). Hope this helps James -- "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!"