everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date

[Kris Kennaway]

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 seems to be out of date.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 the synopsis is obsolete.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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