Slip for Ultrix?

David Herron -- One of the vertebrae david at ms.uky.edu
Sat Jun 3 05:51:14 AEST 1989


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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