eps@gibbs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (08/29/90)
[This is sort of directed at Geoff Arnold, but anyone who's knowledgeable in this area is invited to respond.] I've been asked to look into getting SLIP running on a Sun-4 running SunOS 4.1. We have the Sun SLIP distribution provided with PC-NFS 3.0.1. The examples in the PC-NFS Serial Communications Guide all show configurations where the sl0 interface has its own Class C network number. Since we're Internet-connected, we can't just "make up" network numbers on a whim, nor would we want to have to allocate a new network number for a handful of machines, not to mention the "expense" of reconfiguring all the upstream IP gateways to route for another network. What would it take to do the following: 1) Configure sl0 to use a 4-bit subnet of the Class B network currently being used (unsubnetted) by an existing Ethernet interface on the same machine; 2) provide proxy ARP on the Ethernet side for addresses on the SLIP side? I'm hoping someone else has done this... (no, I don't read the Sun-specific lists). -=EPS=-