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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.ecrc.de!news.space.net!news.muc.de!eisbaer.bb.bawue.de!news.bawue.de!luva.lb.bawue.de!luva.lb.bawue.de!not-for-mail From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI and SLIP Date: 29 Sep 1995 23:32:25 +0100 Organization: private BSD/OS site Lines: 14 Message-ID: <44hs5p$ch5@luva.lb.bawue.de> References: <44fp7b$dis@news.cais.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: luva.lb.bawue.de In article <44fp7b$dis@news.cais.com>, Jim Sloan <jsloan@livnet.com> wrote: >I have been trying for a week now unsuccessfully to get my BSDI machine to >accept a slip connection from another machine. I have tried everything from >using csh shell and entering /usr/sbin/sliplogin to use /usr/sbin/sliplogin as >the shell (the latter seems to drop carrier). If anyone has successfully >gotten BSDI to accept a slip dialin, please help me out. We try to get our >customers to use PPP, but this customer requires SLIP/CSLIP (unfortunately, >the software he uses doesn't support PPP for another 3 months). When slip is set up correctly (man sliplogin), tell the dialin site to disable slip compression (cslip). It solved most of our problems. -- Michael Giegerich, E-Mail: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de, Voice: +49 7144 39337