SLATTACH

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BSD 4.3  

NAME

slattach - attach serial lines as network interfaces  

SYOPNSIS

Slattach ttyname [baudrate ]  

DESCRIPTION

Slattach is used to assign a tty line to a network interface, and to define the network source and destination addresses. The following operands are supported by slattach

ttyname
Specifies the name of the tty device. Ttyname should be a string of the form `ttyXX' , or `/dev/ttyXX'
baudrate
Specifies the speed of the connection. If not specified, the default of 9600 is used.

Only the super-user may attach a network interface.

To detach the interface, use ``ifconfig interface-name down '' after killing off the slattach process. Interface-name is the name that is shown by netstat(1)  

EXAMPLES

slattach ttyh8
slattach /dev/tty01 4800
 

DIAGNOSTICS

Messages indicating the specified interface does not exit, the requested address is unknown, the user is not privileged and tried to alter an interface's configuration.  

SEE ALSO

netstat(1), netintro(4), ifconfig(8), rc(8)  

HISTORY

The command appeared in BSD 4.3


 

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