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Date:      Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:52:14 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Bj??rn K??nig <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date
Message-ID:  <20050101225214.GD68629@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de>
References:  <20050101215140.860B6CCE454@mail.alpha-tierchen.de>

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On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:52:47PM +0100, Bj??rn K??nig 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 seems to be out of date.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.

As you can probably tell from the comment, that's it.

> 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 the synopsis is obsolete.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.

UUCP was moved from the base system to the ports tree.

> 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?

The SLIP protocol is certainly fading into the mists of history.
Please submit a PR with these corrections.

Kris

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