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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:20:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "James M. Middleton" <j.middleton@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Re: Serial TCP/IP
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, James M. Middleton wrote:

> I have recently installed version 2.2.6 of FreeBSD and I am trying to
> connect my computer via a direct serial connection. My only previous
> Unix experience is with SVR4 on a Sun Enterprise 3000. I have set up
> ttyd0 and can log in (terminal emulation). I run slip.login and when I
> do a netstat my connection shows up as sl0*. I have set the ifconfig in
> rc.conf but the sl0 doesn't come up. After reading through the online
> handbook It looks as if I have to run slattach. I ran the following
> command "slattach -h -c -s 19200 /dev/ttyd0" and get an Ioctl error. I
> have installed a RS-232 tester and can see data moving when I try to
> ping from my Win95 PC. This causes a login failure/core dump. I'm
> throwing up my hands. Can anyone point me in the right direction. 

First of all, don't use slip, it's ancient.  Use ppp instead.  Secondly,
read up on pppd and how to set up the options file for dialin access.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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