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 seems to be out of date.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 the synopsis is obsolete.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
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