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From: [e-mail] (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Help needed in slip setup!
Date: 26 Dec 1994 17:19:49 GMT
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In article <3dl8jc$[e-mail]>,
 [e-mail] (Carlos Ramirez Pnet Admin) writes:
> Hello everyone after various attempts to setup config files for using
> slip especially with dns I have given up and decide to ask assistance.
> Thus can someone be so kind as to mail be a sample config files for using
> kermit with slip for dos.
>
Did you read the instructions?  This is from the file NETWORKS\SETUP.DOC
in the MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 Beta ZIP file:

MAKING SLIP CONNECTIONS

To make a SLIP (Serial Line IP) connection, follow these steps:

1. SET PORT 1
   (or whichever serial port you will be using for the SLIP connection).

2. SET SPEED 19200
   (or whatever speed you will be using)

3. SET FLOW RTS/CTS (or NONE)
   Don't use Xon/Xoff flow control on a SLIP connection!  SLIP and Xon/Xoff
   are incompatible with each other.

4. Establish a connection to the terminal server or other device that will be
   providing SLIP service.  Determine the IP address and other information
   (e.g. gateway address) that it has assigned to you.    Normally, these are
   displayed on your screen before the terminal server enters SLIP mode.

5. Escape back to the MS-Kermit prompt and EXIT from MS-DOS Kermit.  The
   connection is left open.

6. Start the SLIP8250 driver, telling it to use the same port (hex address and
   IRQ number must be supplied) and speed (decimal) used in (1) and (2) above,
   and to use hardware flow control (-h), for example:

      slip8250 0x60 -h slip 4 0x3f8 19200

7. Start MS-DOS Kermit again.  Do NOT give it a SET PORT command for the
   serial port where SLIP is running.  Instead, give the SET TCP ADDRESS,
   SET TCP GATEWAY, and other necessary SET TCP commands.  Then, to make
   a connection, use SET PORT TCP <address>, where <address> is the IP
   hostname or address of the IP host you want to connect to.

Note: Even though you might think it's silly to exit from Kermit and then start
it again, when you could simply start the SLIP driver from the Kermit prompt,
there is a reason: starting a driver from inside an application results in
memory fragmentation.

Note 2: In version 3.13 and later, it is also possible to obtain BOOTP service
on a SLIP connection if your SLIP server is configured to provide it (for
example, Cisco terminal servers can do this).  Also, MS-DOS Kermit's SHOW
COMMUNICATIONS command will display the IP address of the BOOTP server.

> On a side note I have beta 13 of kermit what new since then?
>
Of interest to you would be an improvement in the efficiency of SLIP service,
which came in Beta 16 (the current Beta).

- Frank