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From: amagill@pubserv.com (Aaron S. Magill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Help! Problems w/ BSD as Slip Server
Date: 9 Dec 1995 11:53:23 -0600
Organization: Publication Services, Inc.
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Message-ID: <4aciej$jgm@excalibur.pubserv.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: excalibur.pubserv.com

Hi.  I am trying to set up a BSD machine (2.0.1) to act as a Slip server.  I
have sliplogin set as the shell for a user slip1, and a Macintosh using
InterSlip seems to connect properly.  I can use NCSA telnet to get to the BSD
server, but whenever I try to connect to *ANY* other machine, be it local or
remote, I get an error "Host or gateway not respoding."  I know that the
DNS server settings on the Mac are set properly, as Netscape will siccessfully
report that it is "Looking up" a host, and then go to its "Connecting to host"
label... and there it fails.

The default Gateway on the Mac has been set to the Slip Server's address, *AND*
to the BSD machines default gateway address... in both cases, the Mac fails to
connect to any other hosts.

Have I missed some setting to sliplogin somewhere?  Or is there another command
that I need to issue in the slip.login script?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

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Aaron S. Magill (aaronm@pubserv.com)
Systems Administrator
Publication Services, Inc.