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From: mazumdar@fredonia.UUCP (Jin Mazumdar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: SLIP on a DECStation (BSD style).
Message-ID: <1811@fredonia.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 20:44:35 GMT
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	I am faced with the need to add a DECStation 3100 to our
existing systems (4.3BSD) via a serial line.  On a BSD machine one 
has to recompile the kernel with slip option and  run the slattach
program on a tty line not running getty.  After this the line is for
all practical purpose a serial line running tcp/ip protocol.  

	Ultrix seems to have changed the slattach program to include
dial up support, etc. and I do not have source for it.  It is
unsupported by DEC.  I would appreciate hints on how one can hook up a
Ultrix machine to a BSD machine by SLIP.  Please send me E-Mail if you
have done so.

	I have recompiled the Ultrix kernel and found that the slattach
supplied with Ultrix does not work the same way as the BSD version.  I
also was not able to figure out from the documentation in
/etc/sliphosts how I could connect to a non Ultrix host.

	Thanks.


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