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From: steve@wattres.uucp (Steve Watt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: SLIP under Ultrix 4.1
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.020428.1636@wattres.uucp>
Date: 21 Apr 91 02:04:28 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.181547.83@esvax.hamavnet.com>
Organization: Steven Watt, Consultant, San Jose, CA, USA
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In article <1991Apr17.181547.83@esvax.hamavnet.com> henderson@esvax.hamavnet.com writes:
>Hello, good people,

Good morning!

>I need to network one of our VAXes running Ultrix 4.1 with another Unix machine
>at a remote site via SLIP.

Good luck, at least with DEC's SLIP.

>After searching for SLIP support in the Ultrix documentation set I couldn't
>find any reference to it.

I think it may be in there somewhere...

>Am I overlooking something? Or is SLIP something that doesn't come standard
>with Ultrix 4.1? And while I'm asking questions, where could I look for
>alternative's to DEC's implementation of SLIP (if any???)

  While there *is* SLIP support (or is it unsupport; it's not officially
supported) in the Ultrix 4.1 link kit, I've had *MUCH* better luck with a neat
piece of code available from uunet:

ftp:/networking/dialupip2.0   and /networking/dialupip2.0.patch1
(I think; names from memory).

Dialup IP compiled and ran fairly cleanly on the DECstation, and the Ultrix
internals are (I think) similar enough that it should run easily on a
VAXstation as well.

Dialup IP allows you to specify what systems you talk to via SLIP, and makes
connections (through a reasonably nice scripting system) when a packet needs
to be delivered.  It the breaks the connection down after five minutes of no
traffic.

>Thanks in advance,

You're welcome.  Always happy to plug Dialup IP.  It's a neat package.

>Javier Henderson
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