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- From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: HELP: SLIP connection worked once, but not now...
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 02:44:44 EST
- Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc.
- Message-ID: <1CE00001.dgmsr1@tbomb.ice.com>
- Reply-To: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
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- I had my slip connection working once, but now it does not work.
- I do not know what I changed, but I have tried to work through every
- permutation of the steps involved and can not get things to work.
-
- What I do:
-
- o I have added entries for "myhost" and "server" in /etc/hosts.
-
- o I dial the server, login, see the slip server start.
-
- o I run the "slattach /dev/tty0 myhost server 19200" command.
- It starts correctly and shows the right response.
-
- o I run the "ifconfig sl0 netmask 0xffffff00" command, which seems to run
- fine.
-
- o I run the "route add default server 2" to route stuff out the
- slip connection.
-
- The "netstat -r" command seems to show the proper things (from memory):
-
- loop loop UH lo0
- myhost loop UH lo0
- server myhost UH sl0
- default server UG sl0
-
- The problem:
-
- pings to any host beyond "myhost" (e.g. server, hosts on server's net,
- other hosts) return "Host is unreachable". pings to "myhost" or "loop"
- work fine.
-
- Further, when slip *was* working, I would get errors for hosts that
- didn't exist or had no route, but at least the modem lights (SD RD)
- would show data exchanges.
-
- Now, the modem is never hit!! It is like something local (routed?) is
- deciding the host is unreachable and not even considering the route
- for "default" through "sl0" via "server".
-
- Anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this problem.
-
- Do I need a "/etc/gateways" file? If so, what should it look like?
-
- thanks,
-
- tim.
-
-
- tim endres - time@ice.com -or- tbomb!time
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