everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 08:22, Björn König 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 realize that all information concerning this topic seems to be out of date.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. 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 contains at least one gross error: the synopsis is obsolete.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?

You can use PPP for this task (although that doesn't really answer your 
questions).

SLIP isn't used very much so it's rotting a bit :(
(Well the documentation is..)

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