Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1995 03:57:55 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: kern/577: SLIP requires `ifconfig up' now Message-ID: <199507021057.DAA05324@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 95 15:20:02 PDT." <199507012220.PAA04263@freefall.cdrom.com>
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>>Number: 577 >>Category: kern >>Synopsis: SLIP requires `ifconfig up' now >>Confidential: no >>Severity: non-critical >>Priority: medium >>Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list) >>State: open >>Class: sw-bug >>Submitter-Id: current-users >>Arrival-Date: Sat Jul 1 15:20:01 1995 >>Originator: J Wunsch >>Organization: >>Release: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386 >>Environment: > >kernel as built today > >>Description: > >"ifconfig slX my-addr his-addr" doesn't seem to establish the >connection any more, an explicit "ifconfig slX up" is required. > >>How-To-Repeat: > >Establish a SLIP connection and run the above command only. I'm confused by this. The code was written to set the interface up whenever slattach is run and a tty is attached. Why would you want the interface up if this *wasn't* the case? Can you explain your specific problem in more detail? ...I'm not sure I agree with your recent fix. -DG
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