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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Where is my SLIP interface
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:39:12AM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>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

Try 'ifconfig sl0 create' first.  PPP (and presumably SLIP) interfaces
are now cloned on request rather than created statically.

Peter