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I enquired earlier on this list to see whether a SLIP dialer was available
for Digital Unix 3.2. Got no replies at all, which was sort of odd for
this group. In any case, my unending saga to use my SLIP account with my
Alphastation continues. The slip_manual_setup man page is more confusing
than anything else, but that's perhaps because I've read it 10 times over
the past month, and everything reads all jumbled now.
But, the steps I'm taking are:
Dial the number using kermit (tip is something I can't get a hang of),
login and then suspend the kermit session.
ifconfig sl0 _me_ _it_ netmask 255.255.255.0
slattach /dev/tty0 38400
Now, I add a static route, make it the default (t the default (because I
have ethernet at home between my machines), by adding the following line
to /etc/routes
default _me_
rcinet restart
which restarts all the network services and adds that particular route.
NOTE: _me_ is the IP number the provider assigns me dynamically for that
session, _it_ is the IP number for the gateway at their end.
- From my (incomplete) understanding of all this, I seem to be doing it
right. When I ping either _it_ or _me_, I can see my modem sending data,
and occassionaly receiving it, but all those pings go unanswered.
Similarly, I know the static route I set up is working because anything I
attempt to send to any network outside of 127.1.1 (which is what my
machines at home are on, figured no one was using 127 for anything except
loopback, so I might as well), my modem's SD (Send Data) light lights up.
It looks promising, I seem to have convinced my machine that the sl0
interface exists, and that all packets outside of my lan (127.1.1) should
be routed over it. But that's about it, doesn't seem to get anywhere
beyond that. Even if I wish to telnet to _me_ I can see lights on the
modem (which is the one thing that confused me). I can't add records for
_me_ and _it_ to /etc/hosts like the slip_manual_setup page says because
_me_ is assigned dynamically. I know the pings are being routed over sl0
because when I remove sl0 'ifconfig sl0 down', I get errors telling me the
network is down.
In other words, I'm stumped, I exist in a plane where my imagination will
provide no further answers to me, where my creative impulses have withered
into raisins. I need tech support!
So, will someone let me know what I'm missing? Will summarize of course.
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its author.
-- S. C. Johnson
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Received on Sun May 11 1997 - 02:32:06 NZST