henderson@esvax.hamavnet.com (04/18/91)
Hello, good people,
I need to network one of our VAXes running Ultrix 4.1 with another Unix machine
at a remote site via SLIP.
After searching for SLIP support in the Ultrix documentation set I couldn't
find any reference to it.
Am I overlooking something? Or is SLIP something that doesn't come standard
with Ultrix 4.1? And while I'm asking questions, where could I look for
alternative's to DEC's implementation of SLIP (if any???)
Thanks in advance,
Javier Henderson
Engineering Services
Avnet Computer
Los Angeles, CA
henderson@hamavnet.com
{simpact,asylum,elroy,dhw68k}!hamavnet!hendersonsteve@wattres.uucp (Steve Watt) (04/21/91)
In article <1991Apr17.181547.83@esvax.hamavnet.com> henderson@esvax.hamavnet.com writes: >Hello, good people, Good morning! >I need to network one of our VAXes running Ultrix 4.1 with another Unix machine >at a remote site via SLIP. Good luck, at least with DEC's SLIP. >After searching for SLIP support in the Ultrix documentation set I couldn't >find any reference to it. I think it may be in there somewhere... >Am I overlooking something? Or is SLIP something that doesn't come standard >with Ultrix 4.1? And while I'm asking questions, where could I look for >alternative's to DEC's implementation of SLIP (if any???) While there *is* SLIP support (or is it unsupport; it's not officially supported) in the Ultrix 4.1 link kit, I've had *MUCH* better luck with a neat piece of code available from uunet: ftp:/networking/dialupip2.0 and /networking/dialupip2.0.patch1 (I think; names from memory). Dialup IP compiled and ran fairly cleanly on the DECstation, and the Ultrix internals are (I think) similar enough that it should run easily on a VAXstation as well. Dialup IP allows you to specify what systems you talk to via SLIP, and makes connections (through a reasonably nice scripting system) when a packet needs to be delivered. It the breaks the connection down after five minutes of no traffic. >Thanks in advance, You're welcome. Always happy to plug Dialup IP. It's a neat package. >Javier Henderson -- Steve Watt steve@wattres.UUCP swatt@IBM.COM ...!decwrl!gigo!wattres!steve ...!apple!claris!wattres!steve Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift.