From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 00:53:23 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 C7B0A16A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 00:53:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D837C43D55 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 00:53:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j020rAJQ094323; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:23:10 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:23:08 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> In-Reply-To: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1259155.SnUko7xUyR"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501021123.09056.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.4 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= Subject: Re: everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: ,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 00:53:23 -0000 --nextPart1259155.SnUko7xUyR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 08:22, 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 dat= e. > 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 contains at least one gross error: the synopsis is obsolete.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. > > 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? You can use PPP for this task (although that doesn't really answer your=20 questions). SLIP isn't used very much so it's rotting a bit :( (Well the documentation is..) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1259155.SnUko7xUyR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB10X15ZPcIHs/zowRAl/hAJ9aQbFrPLHa5XOuGzq261hs8jp01gCbBcwN 6fi1MtDohZkGeiGTh2LITvs= =03Bl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1259155.SnUko7xUyR--