SLIP under Ultrix 4.1
Steve Watt
steve at wattres.uucp
Sun Apr 21 12:04:28 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr17.181547.83 at esvax.hamavnet.com> henderson at esvax.hamavnet.com writes:
>Hello, good people,
Good morning!
>I need to network one of our VAXes running Ultrix 4.1 with another Unix machine
>at a remote site via SLIP.
Good luck, at least with DEC's SLIP.
>After searching for SLIP support in the Ultrix documentation set I couldn't
>find any reference to it.
I think it may be in there somewhere...
>Am I overlooking something? Or is SLIP something that doesn't come standard
>with Ultrix 4.1? And while I'm asking questions, where could I look for
>alternative's to DEC's implementation of SLIP (if any???)
While there *is* SLIP support (or is it unsupport; it's not officially
supported) in the Ultrix 4.1 link kit, I've had *MUCH* better luck with a neat
piece of code available from uunet:
ftp:/networking/dialupip2.0 and /networking/dialupip2.0.patch1
(I think; names from memory).
Dialup IP compiled and ran fairly cleanly on the DECstation, and the Ultrix
internals are (I think) similar enough that it should run easily on a
VAXstation as well.
Dialup IP allows you to specify what systems you talk to via SLIP, and makes
connections (through a reasonably nice scripting system) when a packet needs
to be delivered. It the breaks the connection down after five minutes of no
traffic.
>Thanks in advance,
You're welcome. Always happy to plug Dialup IP. It's a neat package.
>Javier Henderson
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