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From: meth@ztivax.UUCP (Wilhelm Methfessel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: SLIP on DECStation 3100...
Message-ID: <1264@ztivax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 90 06:52:40 GMT
References: <3893@milton.acs.washington.edu> <12783@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: meth@ztivax.UUCP (Wilhelm Methfessel)
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In article <12783@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax (George Robbins) writes:
  >In article <3893@milton.acs.washington.edu> heldt@ece.wsu.edu (Tim Heldt) writes:
  >> Has anyone gotten SLIP to run on two DEC Station 3100's via 9600 baud modems?
  >> 
  >> I have tried DEC's unsupported slattach and BSD 4.3's slattach.  Both of them
  >> do not work.
  >
  >There was a claim made a while back that the DS3100 console/serial drivers
  >had bugs such that you couldn't run slip successfully.  I dunno if this is
  >so or was just confusion, but it may not be your problem...
  >
We run DEC's unsupported SLIP on a 5810 with ULTRIX 3.1C, which should
be rather similar to ULTRIX on 3100. 
It didn't run with the system as delivered. But (thanks to DEC) we got
a new sl-driver, and after rebuilding the kernel SLIP ran o.k..
Note, that the format of the /etc/sliphosts file slightly changed ( host field
added in first place).

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