Hi there, thanks a lot for the quick and helpful answers.
The first one (thanks, Sharma, Tushar (tsharma_at_dialcall.com)) told me
to discard SLIP and get PPP instead. I fetched it and installing it
was very simple! PPP is *much* better than SLIP (easier to install and
manage, and better performance). So my problem is solved.
PPP V2.2 (Steve Tate's implementation) can be found at
ftp://zaphod.csci.unt.edu/pub.
I got some other hints on how to get SLIP running and will check them
right now. I will post a second summary dealing with SLIP when I'm
done with checking.
Thanks to all who replied!
-Winfried
-- original posting follows here:
-> Arghhh .... hi there, oh gurus in the net ...
->
-> got a problem: I need to connect my machine via SLIP alternating to
-> two different service providers to get two different flavours of
-> internet access. So I need to switch between two different SLIP
-> setups:
->
-> Provider 1 (eunet):
-> ifconfig sl0 193.96.78.4 193.96.76.1
-> route add default 193.96.76.1
->
-> - and -
->
-> Provider 2 (xlink):
-> ifconfig sl0 193.141.69.186 193.141.69.1
-> route add default 193.141.69.1
->
-> As I understand the docs it should be possible to reconfigure the slip
-> interface using the ifconfig command, but then a restart of the
-> internet services (/usr/sbin/rcinet restart) is necessary to notify
-> all daemons of the changes.
->
-> But it doesn't work! I can't manage to reconfigure the slip interface
-> regardless of stopping or restarting the internet services! Even
-> running "netsetup" doesn't help! I have to reboot the machine to get
-> the patches to work.
->
-> I flushed the static routing table (/sbin/route flush) and made sure
-> all slattach's are killed, and everything other I could think of. It
-> seems the setup of the slip interface is "frozen by an ice monster":
->
-> tukan#413# ifconfig sl0
-> sl0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
-> inet 193.96.78.4 --> 193.96.76.1 netmask ffffff00 ipmtu 296
-> tukan#414# ifconfig sl0 193.141.69.186 193.141.69.1 ; ifconfig sl0
-> sl0: flags=11<UP,POINTOPOINT>
-> inet 193.96.78.4 --> 193.96.76.1 netmask ffffff00 ipmtu 296
-> ===========================
-> this are the previous values, changes didn't work!
->
-> Why didn't "ifconfig sl0 193.141.69.186 193.141.69.1" redefine the
-> addresses of the slip interface sl0???
->
-> Some additional info:
-> DEC 3000 300X AXP running OSF1 2.0
->
-> tukan[314]> uname -a
-> OSF1 tukan.ffb.eunet.de V2.0 240 alpha
->
-> I configured my machine as a master bind server with forwards to the
-> external name servers of the service providers.
->
-> Everything works fine in the initial setup with eunet (DNS, mail, ftp,
-> www, everything works fine with eunet), and if I patch the initial
-> setup to xlink *and reboot* everything works fine for xlink.
->
-> But I can't manage to switch between the two configurations without
-> rebooting. My first guess was to use sl0 for eunet and sl1 for xlink,
-> but this seems not to be possible as I have only one serial port and
-> one modem (well, one fine working modem).
->
-> Any clue? Am I too dull to RTFM? I tried and studied for days...
->
-> As usual, I will summarize.
->
-> TIA,
-> Winfried
->
-> --
-> Winfried Huber, Softwarehaus Huber & Boehm, voice: +49 8142 13038
-> Illerweg 6, D-82140 Olching, Germany fax: +49 8142 18612
-> win_at_tukan.ffb.eunet.de
->
Received on Tue Dec 19 1995 - 17:52:06 NZDT