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From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
Subject: Re: Unique SLIP situation
In-Reply-To: sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com's message of Fri, 7 Aug 1992 19:38:40 GMT
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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 23:10:02 GMT
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Well, if you replace $myhost below with the name of the PC (which is in
/etc/hosts, with the correct local address) and $sliphost with the
name of the other end of the slip line (also in /etc/hosts) the
following are the lines from my /etc/netstart.

	nohup slattach /dev/com1 19200
	ifconfig sl0 inet $myhost $sliphost
	ifconfig lo0 inet localhost
	route add $myhost localhost
	route add default $sliphost

Presumably your server side is already set up right; I'm slip'ing
directly into the back of a sparcstation running sunos 4 so I have to
do an /etc/arp -s  so that other machines can find it. It works
(though I'm going out and buying a 16550 card tomorrow -- it's a
486/40, yet gets an annoyingly large number of silo overflows at
19200, even with newer drivers -- enough that NFS doesn't really work,
though ftp does.)
				_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
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