Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:52:14 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bj??rn K??nig <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date Message-ID: <20050101225214.GD68629@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> References: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de>
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--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 seems to be out of date.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 the synopsis is obsolete.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--
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