From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 00:39:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EA016A4B3; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hobby.digiware.nl (dsl312.iae.nl [212.61.63.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D6A43F3F; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from dual (dual [212.61.27.71]) by hobby.digiware.nl (8.12.9/8.12.6) with SMTP id h8P7d9kk021212; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:39:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <016401c38338$1df441e0$471b3dd4@dual> From: "Willem Jan Withagen" To: "Lanny Baron" , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <00cb01c38301$0740d080$471b3dd4@dual> <20030925024215.GF10009@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1064466741.1023.11.camel@panda.freebsdsystems.com> <20030925051321.GG32280@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1064467029.1023.13.camel@panda.freebsdsystems.com> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:39:12 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is my SLIP interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:39:14 -0000 > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 01:13, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 1:12:21 -0400, Lanny Baron wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 22:42, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > >> On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 3:04:52 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I'm trying to upgrade my firewall/router to 5.x but I'm getting caught by > > >>> the fact that I cannot find a 'sl0' interface. > > >> > > >> Are you really still using SLIP? What's wrong with PPP? > > >> > > >>> I've tried the both with if_sl compiled into the kernel as well as a module. > > >>> > > >>> In neither case does ifconfig show a sl0 device. > > >> > > >> IIRC it doesn't show now until it's configured. > > > > > > Perhaps 'The Complete FreeBSD' by Greg Lehey will help out. > > > > Not any more. I removed that chapter from the book. The chapter's > > available (also covers UUCP) if anybody wants it; just ask. But it > > seems that Willem has already had SLIP up and running. I've been running SLIP ever since I started an ISP back in 1994. And I'm still using it next to my ADSL for certain traffic that I do not want to flow over the the widder net. The ADSL was BTW the reason for upgrading, 'cause that poor old 386sx/16Mb could not keep up with 8 Mbit/s ADSL :-) I was also that guy that bought like 50 of 'The Complete FreeBSD' to give them to customers who wanted to know more about that nice system with free software that solved their problems. But PPP has the same problem: the interfaces do not show up when listing them with 'ifconfig -a' And trying to config it: router# ifconfig sl0 1.2.3.4 4.5.6.7 ifconfig: interface sl0 does not exist router# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 3 0xc0100000 3541c8 kernel 2 1 0xc1232000 8000 ipfw.ko 3 1 0xc151e000 5000 if_sl.ko So we can conclude it is a pilot error, since hell would break loose when ppp0 had disapeared. But I have this problem on 3 5.x boxes. --WjW