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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE!picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!gallersd From: gallersd@picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Rainer Gallersdoerfer) Subject: X386 with SLIP over modem connection Message-ID: <1992Sep21.104935.27238@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Sender: news@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Newsfiles Owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: picasso Organization: RWTH Aachen, Germany Date: Mon, 21 Sep 92 10:49:35 GMT Lines: 40 Hello, first sorry for using this group but a posting to comp.protocols.tcp-ip caused no response. I am playing around with SLIP. I did the following: - Installed SLIP for SUNOS4.1.1 pl6 at the University - Testest it against KA9Q on a MAC with direct link - Installed 386BSD and X386 on my PC at home (Patches of CGD for com.c installed) - Got SLIP running by doing an 'slattach' (as root) after dialing in to the University with a connection at v32bis/v42bis Everything works ... ftp says 1.5KB/sec. ... X-Programms are displaying over the modem-connection ... wow ! My problems are the following: I compiled 'sliplogin' from the package 'slipware' which I recieved some times ago. I set it up so that I must not be root to push the slip connection. But when I dial in with kermit and logging in as the user which has sliplogin as the login-shell the other side hangs up or reports something about problems with the lock-file. What can/must I do so that I must not get root when logging in to the remote system ??? How can I get more throughput for FTP or the X11-Protocol - shall I tweak some parameters ? If I use the PC with a direct connection without a modem, the line hangs after a short time independent to the line-speed. What problem can this be. Is it the long (15m) kabel with rts/cts connected ? Does the SLIP driver of bsd (and on the sun) take care of the cts/rts signals ??? Thanks in advance RAINER