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From: doctor@nl2k.edmonton.AB.ca (The Doctor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI and SLiRP
Date: 13 Mar 1996 13:16:46 -0700
Organization: NetLine 2000
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Message-ID: <4i7afe$s9r@doctor.nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca>
References: <Do35r9.EHH@eskimo.com> <1996Mar11.033854.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> <4i1l8v$e2h@moon.igcom.net>
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In article <4i1l8v$e2h@moon.igcom.net>,
David B. Bauman <david@terra.igcom.net> wrote:
>Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr. (terry@spcvxb.spc.edu) wrote:
>: In article <Do35r9.EHH@eskimo.com>, starcrow@eskimo.com (Mark Dreyer) writes:
>: >   Is there a port of SLiRP for BSDI 2.x?  I looked at ftp.bsdi.com and 
>: > cdrom.com to no avail.  Is someone working on this?
>
>:   I don't recall any problems getting it to compile out-of-the-box. The
>: only issue is that there is a bug in 2.0/2.0.1 (supposedly fixed in 2.1,
>: I haven't checked) that can panic the system with a "trap type 12".
>
>:   On a completely different note, does anybody have any ideas on how to
>: "break" a BSD/OS 2.x system so that SLiRP (and TIA, and MLINK, etc.)
>: won't do anything useful, while the rest of the system functions nor-
>: mally? I have a student system and modem pool that's being tied up by
>: people dialing in and running these utilities. We're not an ISP and we
>: don't want to have to buy more modems or restrict shell access to the
>: BSDI boxes.
>
>I've never worked with slirp or any slip emulator, but in my opinion the 
>best way to deal with this problem is 'policy'.  Simply forbid the use of 
>the slirp applications on your system.  Have some type of penalty for 
>breaking that policy.
>
>
>David Bauman

slirp works well under BSD/OS 2.x.

TIA will crash 2.1 esp the TIA software is BSD/OS 1.1 executable
and that does NOT work well.
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