Hello, 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to connect two machines with a null-modem cable, but I realize that all information concerning this topic seems to be out of date.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 The manpage of sl contains at least one gross error: the synopsis is obsolete.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? Best regards Bj?rn
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 seems to be out of date.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 the synopsis is obsolete.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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050101/9a488254/attachment.bin
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 08:22, 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 realize that all information concerning this topic seems to be out of date.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. 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 contains at least one gross error: the synopsis is obsolete.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..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050102/886cca0c/attachment.bin
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, [utf-8] 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. 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?FYI, I had a report in September that SLIP was working for Yar Tikhiy after he fixed a TTY-related bug. However, it's a rapidly dating protocol. It's on my list of network components to test, but the fact that the documentation is slipping is not surprising since most of the world has moved to PPP. It's on my list of things to test and update sometime in the next couple of months once Poul-Henning's TTY work has settled a bit in 6.x. Were you actually able to get SLIP to work, or were the technical obstacles too great? I'll correct the uustat(1) reference now, and I can go take a more detailed look at SLIP if it is actually broken (but given Yar's e-mail, my belief is that it works). I would generally recommend using PPP in preference to SLIP, since it's widely used whereas SLIP seems to have been almost completely abandoned by users once PPP became available. Robert N M Watson
Hello, thanks a lot for your hints. The null-modem cable connection is working now. Anyway, it was surprisingly easy, but I'm totally inexperienced and the neglected manpages and handbook discouraged me, because I didn't touch serial ports since a decade ;-) Finally someone points me at [1]. Regards Bj?rn [1] http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-net-practice.html#chap-net-practice-p2p-via-serial