SLIP slipping away

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri Mar 14 17:48:57 PDT 2008


Kai Lockwood wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having difficulty setting up a SLIP connection between a Debian 4.0 box 
> and FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE. I have enabled the sl driver in the kernel. I have 
> tried using slattach on /dev/cuad0 (usually "slattach -s 115200 /dev/cuad0) 
> only to watch slattach immediately die with no output as to why. If I give 
> the -l option it creates the sl0 interface but will not accept traffic. 
> Reading through the years old FAQs states that a 'netstat -i' with the sl 
> driver installed should show sl interfaces but netstat does not list any sl 
> interfaces. I have tried to load the kernel module if_sl but I have had no 
> success.
> 
> Has anyone on this list had any success with using SLIP?

I somehow doubt anyone has used slip for years and years..
it COULD have been broken years ago. :-/


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kai Lockwood
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