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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:43:21 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lanny Baron <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM>
Cc:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl>
Subject:   Re: Where is my SLIP interface
Message-ID:  <20030925051321.GG32280@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <1064466741.1023.11.camel@panda.freebsdsystems.com>
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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.

Greg
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