From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 2 03:57:37 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA24856 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 03:57:37 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA24850 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 03:57:36 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id DAA01799; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 03:57:23 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id DAA05324; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 03:57:56 -0700 Message-Id: <199507021057.DAA05324@corbin.Root.COM> To: J Wunsch cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: kern/577: SLIP requires `ifconfig up' now In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 95 15:20:02 PDT." <199507012220.PAA04263@freefall.cdrom.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1995 03:57:55 -0700 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>Number: 577 >>Category: kern >>Synopsis: SLIP requires `ifconfig up' now >>Confidential: no >>Severity: non-critical >>Priority: medium >>Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list) >>State: open >>Class: sw-bug >>Submitter-Id: current-users >>Arrival-Date: Sat Jul 1 15:20:01 1995 >>Originator: J Wunsch >>Organization: >>Release: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386 >>Environment: > >kernel as built today > >>Description: > >"ifconfig slX my-addr his-addr" doesn't seem to establish the >connection any more, an explicit "ifconfig slX up" is required. > >>How-To-Repeat: > >Establish a SLIP connection and run the above command only. I'm confused by this. The code was written to set the interface up whenever slattach is run and a tty is attached. Why would you want the interface up if this *wasn't* the case? Can you explain your specific problem in more detail? ...I'm not sure I agree with your recent fix. -DG