Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!wuarchive!udel!haven!decuac!avolio From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: SLIP on a DECStation (BSD style). Message-ID: <3000@decuac.DEC.COM> Date: 14 Apr 90 03:30:23 GMT References: <1811@fredonia.UUCP> Sender: news@decuac.DEC.COM Reply-To: avolio@decuac.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., SWS, Landover, MD Lines: 16 In article vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: >Beware that SLIP is unsupported on Ultrix. If it crashes your machine, >you can't submit bug reports on it. (Under 3.0, it *will* crash your >machine since there was a bug in the linked list handling in if_sl.c.) slight clarification. You can and should submit bug reports on any and all buggy code you find. SUpport vs. non-support indicates what you can expect a patch for, among other things, and the level of effort which might go into fixing it. Now, please -- no flames or sarcastic remarks that I assumre you I can generate in response to this previous paragraph of mine. I just wanted to clarify that, not open speculation about the level of support on Supported code... Fred (ducking)