From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 22:52:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2E916A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:52:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1594143D39 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:52:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4E79D51432; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:52:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:52:14 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Bj??rn K??nig Message-ID: <20050101225214.GD68629@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GpGaEY17fSl8rd50" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 22:52:21 -0000 --GpGaEY17fSl8rd50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:52:47PM +0100, Bj??rn K??nig 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 seems to be out of date. 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. As you can probably tell from the comment, that's it. > 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 the synopsis is obsolete.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. UUCP was moved from the base system to the ports tree. > 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? The SLIP protocol is certainly fading into the mists of history. Please submit a PR with these corrections. Kris --GpGaEY17fSl8rd50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB1ymeWry0BWjoQKURAnxPAKCGOv2OJmq6iXLuXx+/N7Ne8qwdhACfS5Nb VZ/CCqKXSNkp56MEboaUpEo= =4P9o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GpGaEY17fSl8rd50--