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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!cats.ucsc.edu!banshee From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SLIP difficulties Date: 17 Nov 1993 16:56:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 41 Message-ID: <2cdl4r$2k8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> References: <1993Nov17.130816.6937@alw.nih.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) In <1993Nov17.130816.6937@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes: >Dialing in via Kermit (escaping and hitting ^Z), to a Cisco terminal >server which is configured for slip unnumbered, and passive Van >Jacobson header compression, and trying to make it all work. It tells >me my IP address, and I do: > slattach sl0 -c -h -s 19200 /dev/tty00 > (force VJHC, RTS/CTS flow) > ifconfig inet xx.xx.xx.xx netmask 0xfffffe00 up > (I've also tried with -trailers, but that didn't work AT ALL) > route add (what?) slattach -a -h -s 19200 /dev/com0 ifconfig sl0 inet SLIPIP CISCOIP /* dunno which netmask you need */ route add SLIPIP localhost /* if this didn't get set itself */ route add default CISCOIP >On Oct. 5, stas@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Stan Malyshev) wrote: >> I am attempting to establish a SLIP connection between a FreeBSD box >> at home and a campus machine, by dialing in to a local net provider, >> telnetting to campus, and then initiating SLIP on both ends, etc.. > [ ... ] >> slattach sl0 -a -s 38400 -r /dev/null /dev/sio01 >> ifconfig inet 128.32.138.14 128.32.138.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up >> route add default 128.32.138.2 > [ ... ] This is a different matter. I don't know that you can do what he'd like to be able to do. What is the -r option? Bah. My machine is running slip just fine, but internal network hosts aren't having their packets routed out over the slip line. How can I tell if my kernel has been compiled with gateway on? I am running routed with the -s option. -- The Wailer at the Gates of Dawn | banshee@cats.UCSC.EDU | Just who ARE you calling a FROOFROO Head? | | DoD#0667 "Just a friend of the beast." | banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU | 2,3,5,7,13,17,19,31,61,89,107,127,521,607....| banshee@ucscb.BITNET |