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From: dan.srebnick@islenet.com
Subject: SLIP setup
Message-ID: <9505281315.0IMIW00@islenet.com>
Organization: Isle-Net (908) 495-6996
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Date: Sun, 28 May 95 13:15:29 -0500
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Can anyone advise how to get SLIP working under FreeBSD 2.0?  I have done the
following thus far:

added my host and its nameservers to my /etc/hosts

Placed hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf

Added the following to my /etc/netstart:

gateway=slip-gateway
ifconfig sl0 inet $hostname $gateway netmask 0xffffff00
route add default $gateway

I've added my hosts nameserver entries to /etc/resolv.conf

What I can't seem to do is figure out how to give my localhost (name
ears.islenet.com) the dynamic IP address.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Dan