Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!fauern!lan!marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de!bs From: bs@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Bernhard Schneck) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: USER Level SLIP implementations Keywords: SLIP, User-level Message-ID: <4570@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Date: 21 Sep 90 02:32:02 GMT References: Sender: news@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de Distribution: comp Lines: 21 zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: >>Is it technically possible to have a user level implementation of SLIP >>under 4.3 BSD and its derivatives? >There is something called the tunnel driver that allows this. I'd be >interested in anyone who has slip or slfp user level code that works >with this. I've configured if_tun into my kernel and want to try using SLIP (or PPP) over a serial line as a backup link. If anyone has implemented such a beast alreay I'll take it for free :)) >-- >Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ) zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us \Bernhard. Bernhard Schneck Internet: B.Schneck@Marvin.E17.Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE TU Muenchen Physik E17 BitNET : schneck@dgablg5p 8046 Garching West Germany