[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc] I'm trying to SLIP from AT to UNIX, but can't!

nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (02/03/90)

In article <277@isgtec.UUCP> bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) writes:

   I've had no luck getting a SLIP link to work between an AT running
   NCSA Telnet 2.2d (Clarkson version) 

You didn't mention your cable.  SLIP8250 uses hardware handshake, and so
CTS must be attached to RTS, either on the same connector for a null
modem connection, or to the remote machine for real hardware handshaking.
On a DB-25, the means connecting pin 4 to pin 5.
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