[comp.dcom.telecom] SLIP Wanted

dem@iexist.att.com (David E Martin) (10/31/90)

Does anyone know where I can ftp a copy of SLIP?  I would like to run
IP over a normal telephone line to share some license tokens.  Also,
does anyone have any experience hooking two Sun's together via TCP-IP
over regular phone lines?


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brunner@bullhead.uucp (11/02/90)

In article <14181@accuvax.nwu.edu> dem@iexist.att.com (David E Martin)
writes:
>X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 778, Message 12 of 16

>Does anyone know where I can ftp a copy of SLIP?  I would like to run
>IP over a normal telephone line to share some license tokens.  Also,
>does anyone have any experience hooking two Sun's together via TCP-IP
>over regular phone lines?

Slip (ip over serial lines) can be found on several anonymous ftp
sites on the internet, try any of the following:

   uunet.uu.net,   rutgers.edu,   ucbarpa.berkeley.edu   and so forth

You will need to decide which version of SunOS you intend to run on
your two boxes, I presume that you'll use SunOS 3.5 or later, e.g.,
the current 4.1 release. You will find binaries for both the SPARC and
Motorola architectures (actually .o files, you'll need to build a
kernel, not hard if you follow instructions or have done it before on
any bsd-derived system), and the user level code (slattach and
friends). Since this is a little out of the ordinary for the telecom
news group, I suggest that you figure out what your going to use for
modems, Sun hardware and software, then go exploring on the cannonical
internet ftp sites. If after doing this you want more assistance, post
a query (details are always appreciated) to comp.protocols.tcp-ip. If
you want some one with experience to spend a few hours setting you up,
post a pre-proposal to misc.jobs.contract.

Below is a list of files in the slip _source_ distribution I use
(note, _not_ for Sun gear, I support 4.3bsd on the IBM RT platform):

[brunner@bullhead:390]% find slip -type f -print
slip/sl/README			<- obvious
slip/sl/man/manl/dstaddr.l	<- man page for dst addr config
slip/sl/man/man8/slattach.8c	<- man page for link config
slip/sl/src/local/dstaddr.c	<- src for
slip/sl/src/local/Makefile	<- obvious
slip/sl/src/local/slattach.c	<- src for
slip/sl/src/sys/net/if_sl.c	<- kernel serial line driver src, vax version
slip/sl/vax.diff		<- patches conf/files, h/ioctl.h, net/route.c
					and sys/tty_conf.c
slip/sl/sun.diff		<- same for files, ioctl,h and tty_conf.c
slip/sl/if_sl.c.diff		<- patch for Sun

If you don't have SunOS source, you'll want the relocatable binary
object file I mentioned earlier. Don't forget to use binary mode when
doing the file transfer.


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Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto	(415) 855-4486
inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu		uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner

dem@iexist.att.com (David E Martin) (01/03/91)

I posted an article some time ago looking for SLIP.  Thanks to
eric@mammoth.Berkeley.EDU and lej@quintus.com I found the source
several places.

Namely:
ucdavis.ucdavis.edu, cs.toronto.edu and ucbarpa.berkeley.edu

I haven't had much chance to experiment with it yet, but I will post
my experiences when I do.


David Martin,  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL   dem@iexist.att.com