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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!fozzie!porter From: porter@fozzie (Ron Porter) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: another stupid SLIP question Date: 23 Aug 1994 19:20:17 GMT Organization: Division of Information Technology Lines: 33 Message-ID: <33di5h$8qg@news.doit.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fozzie.chem.wisc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Yes, its me again. I'm still trying to get SLIP running on a 486Freebsd1.1.5.1R machine. Some people have given some appriciated time and suggestions, but i'm still struggling. Anyway i'me also apperently not doing a good job explaining my situation, because i've got responses as to how to set up the machine to dial into a slipserver. But what i want is to set up the SLIPserver itself. What my situation is right now is that i have a Macintosh at home along with the 486FreeBSD machine. I will eventually move the FreeBSD machine to work where i will use a modem to dialup and connect with slip. But for now at least i'm just trying to make a SLIP connection between the two with a serial cable. I've following the FAQ and most of it seems straight forward, modifing files and such. One problem is that it's not real clear to me when i'm doing this which steps are for the server and which are for the client. This probibly doesn't matter but it might help my understanding of what i'm doing though. Can anybody give an outline of what it takes to just set up the server? Also are there different ways of doing it? Some of the mail i've received onn slip from other netters has had quotes that read somthing like " this is what i did" or "this is my approach". I would also like to know how the machine handles letting another machine connect. Meaning once the server is set up correctly will there be a procsess or daeman runing in the background watching the serial port for a connection request? If so will a "ps" or other command show if this is actually working. D D I would also like to know how the machine handles the se doing -- *********************************************************** *Ron Porter porter@chem.wisc.edu * *Univ. Of Wisconsin Chemistry Dept * *1101 University Ave. Madison Wi 53706 * ***********************************************************