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Date:      Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:52:47 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEvDtm5pZw==?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date
Message-ID:  <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de>

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Hello,

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to connect two machines with a null-modem cable, but I realize that all information concerning this topic seems to be out of date.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 The manpage of sl contains at least one gross error: the synopsis is obsolete.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.

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?

Best regards
Björn



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