On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 08:22, BjÃrn KÃnig 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 realize that all information concerning this topic seems to be out of date.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. 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 contains at least one gross error: the synopsis is obsolete.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 questions). SLIP isn't used very much so it's rotting a bit :( (Well the documentation is..) -- 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
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