Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!hcr!larry
From: larry@hcr.UUCP (Larry Philps)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Slip support for Sun 386 Sun OS 4.01
Message-ID: <16@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 17:50:01 GMT
References: <8903060609.AA21488@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <469@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Reply-To: larry@zeus.UUCP (Larry Philps)
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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In article <469@eagle_snax.UUCP> geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP (Geoff Arnold @ Sun ECD - R.H. coast near the top) writes:
>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)?
>> ...

>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.

This has already been done by Rayan Zachariassen at the U of Toronto for
SunOS 4.0.  It is available for anonymous ftp from neat.ai.toronto.edu
(128.100.1.65).  I don't remember what the name of the file(s) are.  There is
lots of stuff in that pub directory.  Its availability was announced in the
comp.archives group.