From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 22:45:22 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 DA1F616A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:45:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.efacilitas.de (efacilitas.de [213.133.110.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EAD43D1F for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:45:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.alpha-tierchen.de (port-212-202-169-228.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.169.228]) by mail.efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7EF3123962 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:45:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.local [127.0.0.1]) by mail.alpha-tierchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B11CCE4F8 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:45:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.alpha-tierchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.efacilitas.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00536-03 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:45:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from alpha (alpha.local [192.168.1.2]) by mail.alpha-tierchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860B6CCE454 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:51:40 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEvDtm5pZw==?= To: Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:52:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcTwTDtYE3mpJPenQg27x8vTU3AQCA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-Id: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at alpha-tierchen.de Subject: everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: ,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: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 22:45:23 -0000 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 The manpage = of sl contains at least one gross error: the synopsis is obsolete.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 Bj=C3=B6rn