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From: hmctague@wpi.edu (Henry R McTague)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: SLIP under FreeBSD
Date: 21 Apr 1994 17:45:50 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Here is my situation:
	
	I am running FreeBSD 1.0.2(I think) at home.  I dial up the slip 
   server at work with kermit.  Once I am connected, I suspend the kermit 
   sesion and run the following commands:
	
	slatach sl0 /dev/tty01 

        ifconfig inet sl0 clientname servername netmask 0xffffff00

                                ;Where clientname and servername
                                ;are the values given to me when I
                                ;started the slip connection 134.141.3.*

        route add default servername

   Now I can ping any machine in the company using it's machine name, 
   which means that ping works, and I am successfully querying the 
   nameserver.  I found that I can also mount nfs filesystems with no
   trouble.  I cannont however, telnet, ftp, or access my nntp server
   using a news reader.  When I telnet or ftp, It connects to the remote
   machine, but then it just hangs indefinitely.  I'm not sure where to
   go from here. Some stuff works and some doesn't.  Can anybody give
   suggestions?

	Also, does anybody know how to disable call waiting when using a
   dial-back system?

   Thank in advance,

   Henry McTague
   mctague@olympus.ctron.com