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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Slip for Ultrix?
Message-ID: <11822@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 89 19:51:14 GMT
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Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
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With Ultrix v3.0 SLIP comes as an unsupported package.  Look at
/etc/sliphosts & /usr/new(?)/slattach & so on.

I've been playing with it some recently and have been having
some problems.  It has worked fine with direct dedicated connections
between a couple machines.  But as soon as I attempted to emulate
a modem connection and drop the line -- the line wouldn't clean
itself up without necessitating a reboot.  Instead it prints some
messages on the console about "rtpurge xxx xxx" where "xxx" was
a couple of kernel addresses.

On the originating machine (a VS2000) it only printed the message
a couple of times, but the machine was "hung" for about 30 seconds.
On the destination machine it kept printing the message, I couldn't
get any control back, and I always ended up rebooting the machine.

I feel it'll work *FINE* as long as you're only using it with direct
connections, but if you need it for something like dial-up-SLIP you're
out of luck right now.

I've been told that it will become an Officially Supported product
sometime soon.
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<- David Herron; an MMDF guy                              <david@ms.uky.edu>
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