woo@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Carson C. Woo) (09/28/89)
I have a MacIIcx, 4M RAM, 80M hard disk, running A/UX 1.1. At the moment, the machine is hooked up to a direct modem (through the NIM) to the campus wide network. Since the network only understands IP, the best that I can do is to set up a SLIP environment for the Mac. I tried to follow the manual, but the manuals keep referring to a slip-server. My problem is that I cannot identify the slip-server. I can tell the modem (or the NIM it is connecting to) to switch to slip mode, but I don't know how to tell A/UX that the modem is ready to accept slip packets. I have some applications that make use of system calls like socket, bind, etc. I would like to know how to direct these functions to use the modem and make them send slip packets to the network. BTW, the modem has a fixed, unique internet address. So, I can use that address as the Mac's internet address (or can I ?) Thanks in advance for any hint. P.S. Is there a manual reference for /etc/slattconf ? I cannot find it in the command reference.