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From: geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Slip support for Sun 386 Sun OS 4.01
Message-ID: <469@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 89 21:41:41 GMT
References: <8903060609.AA21488@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP (Geoff Arnold @ Sun ECD - R.H. coast near the top)
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In article <8903060609.AA21488@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> bkc@OMNIGATE.CLARKSON.EDU (Brad Clements) writes:
>Has anyone gotten slip to work with Sun OS 4.01 (object only) on a 386i
>machine (or any other Sun machine under OS 4.01)?
>
>I'm all set to add the slip package that was posted to USENET at the end
>of last year, only there is no  tty_conf.c file on my system.
>
>Does anyone know how to go about adding the slip discipline into the tty
>driver without having source?  Or do I have to make slip a real pseudo
>device (with its own major and minor) and change slattach to access
>the device directly?  Can that even be done?

In SunOS 4.0 et seq, the TTY driver is Streams-based. (I think I'm
supposed to capitalize that "Streams", or maybe it should be "streams" 
or "STREAMS". Oh, well...) This means that SLIP has to be rewritten as
a Streams module, and "slattach" has to push (and eventually pop)
it. It's planned for the next release of PC-NFS (no date yet). Note
that Sun only officially endorses SLIP for PC-to-Sun (or whatever)
connectivity.

Roll on PPP....


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Geoff Arnold,                              Internet: garnold@sun.com
Manager, PC-NFS Engineering                UUCP: ....!sun!garnold
PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc.
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