[comp.unix.ultrix] slip

jenkinsm@hplabs.UUCP (MICHAEL A. JENKINS) (07/25/88)

Does anyone know were to get the source code for SLIP for Ultrix?
(I am not on this mailing list.  Please send responses to me.)

mike	jenkinsm@eglin-vax.arpa


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wdg@unccvax.UUCP (Doug Gullett) (07/30/88)

If you get a reply we would really appreciate you forwarding it to
us.  I went to the BOF in Dallas and there was talk then that someone
had SLIP up and running.  I think that was for Ultrix 2.0.  We are 
half way through upgrading all of our machines to 2.2.


			thanks,
			Doug Gullett
			System Admin., University of NC at Charlotte

jross@pilot.njin.net (Jeff Ross) (08/30/90)

I'm a little new to the management of a ultrix system so my question
may be a little trivial but anyway, here is the situation.  I am
running ultrix 3.0 on a MVII with 16Mb of memory.  this machine is
connected to our local ethernet and is connected to a slip line
running at 9600bps (granted, not overly fast, but enough for right
now)  the problem is thus, if I come from one of 2 other machines via
tcp/ip on the ethernet side, and I attempt an ftp to someplace, the
microvax provides the nameservice to the machine then I attempt to
connect to the ftp site which happens, however from then on, I
sometimes will get a prompt for my username sometimes I don't, if I
do, I'll also get the prompt for my password, then ftp just seems to
hang.  I can however connect from the mv using ftp without any
problems.

telnet seems to work (or at least as far as I can tell) am I doing
something wrong? is it because of my slow line to the outside?  

thanks in advance...

						Jeff
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huntting@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Brad Huntting) (10/08/90)

I've been trying for days now to get slip running on a decstation (any
decstation) with a telebit T2500 modem.

I recompiled the kernal (DS5000 w/Ultrix 4.0) with
	psudo-device	sl
and it seems happy.  But when I do a `netstat -i' theres no `sl0'
interface!

`ifconfig sl0' doesn't believe it's there.  There's no message on
reboot to sugest that it's being initialized.  I'm stumped is dec's
if_sl.c just plum busted?

I have a version of tip which will deal with T2500's (the /etc/slatach
provided with ultrix doesn't), and slip but it bombs with "no such
interface" (paraphrased).

Tell me I don't have to rip out the whole kernal network code, and put
in Berkley please!


brad
	huntting@boulder.colorado.edu

grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (10/08/90)

In article <27710@boulder.Colorado.EDU> huntting@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Brad Huntting) writes:
> I've been trying for days now to get slip running on a decstation (any
> decstation) with a telebit T2500 modem.
> 
> I have a version of tip which will deal with T2500's (the /etc/slatach
> provided with ultrix doesn't), and slip but it bombs with "no such
> interface" (paraphrased).

I'd suggest that you try to get the acucap entry for trailblazers to
work with slattach.  It shouldn't require that much modification to
set up the T2500 per your needs.  Set up the modem with interface speed
locked at 9600, flow control disabled, reset on DTR drop and report
real DSR and CD.  Clone an T2500 termcap entry from the generic
telebit entry, including any dynamic parameter changes...

	(above based on uucp - slattach in 3.1C seems dead meat)

> Tell me I don't have to rip out the whole kernal network code, and put
> in Berkley please!

I hope not, the stuff is actually supposed to work in 4.0 (I hope!)...

The stuff you mentioned probably failed because slattach does many
secret and probably obscene things to set up the interface and
connection.

Be really nice if there was some way to enable the debugging code in
slattach...  Anybody know why it contains references to /etc/remote
in addition to /etc/acucap?
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