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From: loverso@xenna.Encore.COM (John Robert LoVerso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: SLIP for Annex boxes?
Message-ID: <3856@encore.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 13:28:33 GMT
References: <2002@spdcc.COM>
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Reply-To: loverso@xenna.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso)
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In article <2002@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
> I seem to recall seeing some reference to SLIP support in Annex boxes
> in the past few days--perhaps in the TCP-IP mailing list.  Is this so?

4.3BS-compatible SL/IP is supported as of Annex software release R4.0.
From what I understand, you'll get that automatically if you are on a
software support contract.

> Also, is there any way to manually change a route table entry in
> a particular Annex as it's running...

As of the released Annex software now, that is not possible.  You can
poke in hardwired (never changing) and passive routes upon boot now.
In the future, there will certainly be a mechanism for this.

John R LoVerso, Encore Computer Corp
encore!loverso, loverso@multimax.arpa
[on a full moon only: LoVerso@Encore.COM]