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cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject: Re: kern/577: SLIP requires `ifconfig up' now 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 19:33:53 -0700
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>For me, any change that would restore the existing behaviour will be
>okay.  I can either think of marking the interface up with if_up()
>[sp?] or also modifying slattach instead to do it itself.

   What I don't want to allow is for the interface to be set up without there
being an associated tty.
   I have a change that will give us both what we want. Basically, "ifconfig
srcaddr dstaddr" will set the interface up if it is currently attached to a
tty. Otherwise, it will be set 'up' as soon as slattach turns the interface
into a SLIP device.

-DG