slip

[Larry Snyder]

karl at ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:

>		1) The system requires a system name when you set up SL/IP.
>		   The problem, of course, is that I don't KNOW what which 
>		   system will call!  ARGH!  

>		2) It also wants a line name (ie: /dev/ttyxx).  Again, what
>		   if I have a bunch of lines on a rotary?!  Grrrrr...

>		3) When I go through the motions, it doesn't work.  I don't
>		   know if this is me or something else.  In any event, it
>		   looks like the data is going across the line, but I get
>		   no response back from the remote end (and yet data
>		   appears to be going both directions).

Nope - not that I found out - all the SYSV 386's that I have found only
allow one SLIP connection tied to a specific port - except for ESIX - which
I've been told will allow you to define 2 ports for SLIP.

Intel release 4 also allows only one SLIP connection at a time -

My Computone driver won't allow data to come back from the modem (like
you mention in #3) - upgrading to the latest driver fixed that - but
broke bi-directional communications on the ports (which is needed more).

>	I'm about at wits end.  Does anyone have a solution that works?  I
>	want to use my current modem pool, and not split them off onto some
>	PC-router solution (which would require doubling our modem
>	investment).  I also >must< be able to accept and make connections
>	to multiple sites.  We're willing to do some hacking, IF I know what
>	to hack!

Let me know what you find out - My 2 cents is to get another V.32 modem on
a single line - and maybe somehow - modifing the scripts to add the names 
of the 20 or so machines you need to connect with.

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