From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 02:09:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01349 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:09:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00368 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:06:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@relay.ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05002; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:03:36 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) From: Ruslan Ermilov Message-Id: <199801281003.MAA05002@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Subject: Re: slip or ppp In-Reply-To: from "Daniel K Fry" at "Jan 27, 98 08:06:44 pm" To: daniel.fry@unh.edu (Daniel K Fry) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:03:36 +0200 (EET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-My-Interests: Unix,Oracle,Networking X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Once Daniel K Fry wrote: > hi > > i am trying to connect my freebsd machine to the internet via my hardwired > connection here at school. we are going to have ethernet in our rooms > next year, but for now the connection hooks to the serial port. i just use > trumpet winsock with my win95 machine. > > so, i was figuring i would have to use slattach > > is this the right tool to use? keep in mind that i dont have to use a > modem. > > i tried setting it up according to the SLIP instructions in the > handbook and then skipped the part about dialing and just ran slattach > > slattach -h -c -s 19200 /dev/cuaa0 > > i get SIGHUP on /dev/cuaa0 (s1-1); exiting > You wrote: "keep in mind that i dont have to use a modem", so I would recommend you to use `-l' flag of slattach. > so do i need to use a different device name? No, it is a right name. -- Ruslan A. Ermilov System Administrator ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380-652-247647 Simferopol, Crimea 2426679 ICQ Network, UIN