Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:23:08 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date Message-ID: <200501021123.09056.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> References: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de>
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--nextPart1259155.SnUko7xUyR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 08:22, Bj=C3=B6rn K=C3=B6nig wrote: > I wanted to use SLIP to connect two machines with a null-modem cable, but= I > realize that all information concerning this topic seems to be out of dat= e. > First of all the device sl0 doesn't exist in 5.3 although there is a > "device sl" in sys/i386/conf/GENERIC for Kernel SLIP. The manpage of sl > contains at least one gross error: the synopsis is obsolete. slattach(8) > refers to uustat(1), but uustat(1) doesn't exist. Chapter 21.7 of the > handbook is absolutly useless in conjunction with 5.3-RELEASE. > > Does these things have a background or a specific reason? Is there an easy > alternative? Was SLIP declared as obsolete but someone forgot to document > it? You can use PPP for this task (although that doesn't really answer your=20 questions). SLIP isn't used very much so it's rotting a bit :( (Well the documentation is..) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1259155.SnUko7xUyR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB10X15ZPcIHs/zowRAl/hAJ9aQbFrPLHa5XOuGzq261hs8jp01gCbBcwN 6fi1MtDohZkGeiGTh2LITvs= =03Bl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1259155.SnUko7xUyR--
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