Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:7365 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1704 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eff!news.kei.com!world!ksr!jfw From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD - please help me setup SLIP Message-ID: <36697@ksr.com> Date: 8 Dec 93 17:28:58 EST References: <CHEE9M.3Kn@Colorado.EDU> <CHn76t.921@interlan.Interlan.COM> <hastyCHovxK.9wG@netcom.com> Sender: news@ksr.com Lines: 12 While we're on the topic, I have a SLIP configuration question of my own (actually for NetBSD, but I suspect it's generic to all BSDs). I had two SLIP lines, one running to a Macintosh, the other used to connect to the place I work via modem. Neither SLIP interface was in use all the time, and therein (probably) lies the problem. I was finding that since slattach just grabs a random sl unit, either sl0 or sl1 could get bound to a given SLIP line, but the routes weren't getting torn down when each line was taken down, so about half the time I wound up being unable to route packets correctly. Is there some particular way that one is supposed to arrange a situation like this? Or is the only solution what I eventually did -- get a pair of ethernet boards so I only need one SLIP line :-).