jehics@ultb.UUCP (J.E. Eliotis) (09/26/89)
I have bought the Lachman Streams TCP/IP package for my AT&T 6386 box. It contains a device /dev/slip. I would like to believe that this stands for Serial Line Internet Protocol, i.e., IP over an RS232 line. Does anyone know anything about it? If it works, how do I make it work? Jim Heliotis {allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!jeh ritcv!jeh@CS.Rochester.EDU jeh@CS.RIT.EDU
aes@laisagna.i88.isc.com (Andy Schweig) (10/05/89)
In article <1288@ultb.UUCP> jehics@ultb.UUCP (J.E. Heliotis) writes: >I have bought the Lachman Streams TCP/IP package for my AT&T 6386 box. It >contains a device /dev/slip. I would like to believe that this stands for >Serial Line Internet Protocol, i.e., IP over an RS232 line. Does anyone >know anything about it? If it works, how do I make it work? > > Jim Heliotis > {allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!jeh > ritcv!jeh@CS.Rochester.EDU > jeh@CS.RIT.EDU Yes, /dev/slip is Serial Line IP. To use it, run slattach(1M) as follows: slattach ttydev local remote [ baud ] where ttydev is the tty device name ("/dev/" is prepended if not already there), local is the internet address to be used for this end of the SLIP link, remote is the internet address in use at the other end, and baud is the baud rate (default is 9600). Local and remote can be specified as host names or internet addresses in dot notation. For example: slattach tty00 192.9.200.42 192.9.200.57 2400 Once this is done on both ends of the link, the SLIP connection should be operational. To tear down the SLIP link, run sldetach ifname where ifname is the interface name as shown by netstat(1M) (e.g., sl0). Note: slattach and sldetach must be run as super-user. Andy Schweig INTERACTIVE Systems Corp. aes@i88.isc.com ...!laidbak!aes