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- From: mah@parrot.prv.univie.ac.at (Michael Haberler)
- Subject: Dell SVR4 + VJ Compressed SLIP works!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.002306.27639@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
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- Reply-To: mah@ic.co.at
- Organization: Vienna University
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:23:06 GMT
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- rapfast.unibase.sk.ca has two nice drivers for SVR4:
- sas-1.25.tar.Z, the Streams version of FAS, and
- slip.tar.Z, a compressed SLIP streams driver.
-
- I use SAS because I have an AST-4 clone with 16550's. I tried
- Dell SLIP ontop of that for a while but wasnt too happy - those two
- dont get along very well (frequent 'ippullupmsg failed' messages on the
- console, and freuently needing disable/restart of the slip demons).
- Plus, I was used to compressed SLIP - makes quite a difference over
- slow lines.
-
- It turns out that the Compressed SLIP driver on rapfast works
- great with SAS on Dell SVR4 2.1. I havent tried the dialup stuff in there
- as I have an async leased line but I will do so shortly. I'm typing
- this into xrn over this combination.
-
- Installation of the drivers is straightforward. The only nit was that I
- had to change UNREG_SLHUP to SLP_UNREG_SLHUP and REG_SLHUP to SLP_REG_SLHUP
- in drivers/sys/slp.h to get sliphangupd to compile.
-
- I'd assume that the CSLIP driver works with other serial drivers as well,
- I havent tested that. As opposed to the Dell SLIP driver which is a tunnel
- driver going back to two userland processes for tty I/O, this CSLIP driver
- is a streams multiplexer module which sits between the tty and IP
- modules in the kernel, so there's no context switching involved for
- packet I/O. And it's a great hacking base besides...
-
- As Jerry P. would say: Recommended.
-
-
- -michael
-
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