From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 12:38:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA4616A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:38:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9217443D45 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:38:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j02CYc78028807; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 07:34:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)j02CYcg3028804; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:34:38 GMT (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:34:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: =?utf-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEvDtm5pZw==?= In-Reply-To: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 12:38:15 -0000 On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, [utf-8] Bj=C3=B6rn K=C3=B6nig 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 of sl contains at least one gross error: the synopsis is obsolete.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.=20 >=20 > 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?=20 FYI, I had a report in September that SLIP was working for Yar Tikhiy after he fixed a TTY-related bug. However, it's a rapidly dating protocol. It's on my list of network components to test, but the fact that the documentation is slipping is not surprising since most of the world has moved to PPP. It's on my list of things to test and update sometime in the next couple of months once Poul-Henning's TTY work has settled a bit in 6.x.=20 Were you actually able to get SLIP to work, or were the technical obstacles too great? I'll correct the uustat(1) reference now, and I can go take a more detailed look at SLIP if it is actually broken (but given Yar's e-mail, my belief is that it works). I would generally recommend using PPP in preference to SLIP, since it's widely used whereas SLIP seems to have been almost completely abandoned by users once PPP became available.=20 Robert N M Watson