SLIP on DECStation 3100...

[Wilhelm Methfessel]

In article <12783 at cbmvax.commodore.com> grr at cbmvax (George Robbins) writes:
  >In article <3893 at milton.acs.washington.edu> heldt at ece.wsu.edu (Tim Heldt) writes:
  >> Has anyone gotten SLIP to run on two DEC Station 3100's via 9600 baud modems?
  >> 
  >> I have tried DEC's unsupported slattach and BSD 4.3's slattach.  Both of them
  >> do not work.
  >
  >There was a claim made a while back that the DS3100 console/serial drivers
  >had bugs such that you couldn't run slip successfully.  I dunno if this is
  >so or was just confusion, but it may not be your problem...
  >
We run DEC's unsupported SLIP on a 5810 with ULTRIX 3.1C, which should
be rather similar to ULTRIX on 3100. 
It didn't run with the system as delivered. But (thanks to DEC) we got
a new sl-driver, and after rebuilding the kernel SLIP ran o.k..
Note, that the format of the /etc/sliphosts file slightly changed ( host field
added in first place).

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