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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:7347 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1694 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!myall.awadi.com.au!myall!blymn From: blymn@mallee.awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD - please help me setup SLIP Date: 10 Dec 1993 01:52:03 GMT Organization: AWA Defence Industries Lines: 71 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Dec9195204@mallee.awadi.com.au> References: <CHEE9M.3Kn@Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: mallee.awadi.com.au In-reply-to: ramzi@tigger.cs.colorado.edu's message of Thu, 2 Dec 1993 08:00:57 GMT >>>>> On Thu, 2 Dec 1993 08:00:57 GMT, ramzi@tigger.cs.colorado.edu (Ramzi Al-Majid) said: Ramzi> the following is what i did where the FAQ steps and comments Ramzi> are preceded by '>>>' and the things i did are the rest. Ramzi> i put the following lines in my /etc/hosts file, bahrain Ramzi> is my box host name and netblazer is the school's slip server Ramzi> 128.138.243.113 netblazer.cs.colorado.edu netblazer Ramzi> 128.138.198.27 bahrain.cs.colorado.edu bahrain A good start... Ramzi> Ramzi> domain bahrain.cs.colorado.edu Ramzi> nameserver 128.138.198.27 This is not really necessary to get slip running. You would need this to resolve foreign addresses. You can get by with putting the hosts you want to talk to in your /etc/hosts file. Ramzi> i logged in thru kermit successfully and then did Ramzi> ctrl-\ Z to susspend the program If you use kermit it is safe to actually quit it as kermit will not drop the connection unlike tip. >>> - Run `ifconfig inet sl0 clientname servername netmask 0xffffff00` Ramzi> when i ran Ramzi> iconfig inet sl0 bahrain netblazer netmask 0xffffff00 Ramzi> i get an error saying Ramzi> !@@#$#%^&* ioctl !@#$%^&* no such interface I think that there is a typo in the FAQ!! That command should be: iconfig sl0 bahrain netblazer netmask 0xffffff00 i.e. NO inet in there. Ramzi> routed add default netblazer Ramzi> i get an error that 'bind: .... addres is already ised' 'Coz the interface is not up... Ramzi> ping is unsuccessful at this point because the interface is not up... Ramzi> Ramzi> where is this kernel config file ????????? in the source tree /sys/arch/i386/conf (or something like that...) Ramzi> is it something that comes with the sources ??? Yup. Ramzi> i only got the binary distribution. Not sure about FreeBSD but I think the generic kernel should have the slip driver configured in... they usually have everything. Ramzi> what am i doing wrong ??? Try it without the inet in the ifconfig an see what happens, the command tells ifconfig to up the inet network device which does not exist in the kernel. -- Brett Lymn