Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: DialUpIP SLIP is available Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 91 19:55:02 GMT References: <1991Jun13.170751.1743@ni.umd.edu> Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA. Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: louie@sayshell.umd.edu's message of 13 Jun 91 17:07:51 GMT I just downloaded and unpacked Louie's beautiful SLIP package. Reading part of the documentation I realized the rc.slip requires the hosts's and NeXT's IP numbers. In our setup at UCIrvine, the server issues an IP number when it goes into the SLIP mode. This means that either rc.slip needs to be edited before one fires up slip (I can imagine a script using sed doing this), or making the assigned IP number into an environment variable which rc.slip reads. Our server expects BOOTP to get the number and configure SLIP. I have no previous experience with slip and would welcome any advice before I start experimenting with it. Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET