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- From: ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu
- Subject: NeXT and SLIP -- not so hard (SUMMARY)
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <Nov11.063412.82143@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:34:12 GMT
- Reply-To: ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: slip20.slip.colostate.edu
- Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
- Keywords: NeXT SLIP SUMMARY summary slip next
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-
- SLIP installation for near-mortals
-
- First, get the SLIP in pub/next/submissions *NOT* in
- pub/next/2.0-release/whatever
- it won't work in 3.0...
-
- What threw me for a loop:
-
- As shipped, the machine is a NetInfo-dependant machine.
-
- You need to change the prefs in HostManager to the following:
- (hit Local... first to get to the info about the local machine)
-
- ---option--- ---checked---
- NetInfo Binding: Use Local Domain Only, Readable only by local net
- Hostname: your hostname
- NIS Domain Name: None
- Internet Adress: something (this must be filled in for a
- non-NetInfo
- machine)
- Broadcast Address: Default
- Time Standard: Ignore Network Time
- Netmask: Default
- Router: None (I'm not sure about this, but "none" works)
-
-
- in the file /etc/rc.local add the following lines:
-
- sh /usr/dialupip/config/rc.slip >/dev/console 2>&1
- /usr/dialupip/bin/duioctl slip0 ENABLECALL
-
- this starts the SLIP scripts, and also enables automatic call-out on
- demand...
-
- (If you don't want to have auto-callout, change "ENABLE" to "DISABLE"
-
-
- You need to configure the /usr/dialupip/config files...
-
- this is a daunting task. really. This is where you **REALLY**
- need to read the /usr/dialupip/man/Documentation/Manual.wn file.
- It is VERY detailed, and is a fabulous manual.
-
- thanks to Derek_Beatty@cmu.edu who told me what I was doing wrong.
- other thanks to ckminer@longs.lance.colostate.edu for the .../config/*
- files that I mooched from him.
-
- Here are some of the files, they are set up to call into a local
- machine, set the terminal to 8-bit passthrough ("terminal download")
- and hardware flow control ("term flow hard")... then it starts slip
- by typing slip, and then greps for the given address.
-
- The modem setup works for a Microcom QX/4232hs modem, but should be easy
- to
- edit for other modems... the format is pretty straightforward.
-
-
- #
- # tcldiald TCL script used to dial a modem
- # Originally contributed by Mark Crispin
-
- # $Id: dial-modem.tcl,v 4.1 1992/02/07 16:56:35 louie Exp $
- parity zero
-
- # Set default timeout for expect/rexpect commands
- set timeout 20
-
- log "Start of Microcom QX/4232hs dialing script"
-
- # Flush any pending command
- xmit {\r}
- sleep 1
-
- # Get modems attention
- set timeout 2
- foreach i (once) {
- xmit {AT\r}
- expect {*OK*} break timeout {}
- xmit {AT\r}
- expect {*OK*} break timeout {}
- error "Could not get the modem's attention"
- }
-
- set timeout 5
-
- # Initialize to modem wired-in defaults
- xmit {ATZ\r}
- expect timeout {error "waiting for OK from ATZ"} {*OK*}
-
- # Let things cool down from the ATZ
- sleep 1
-
- set timeout 45
- set callresult FAIL
- ## other numbers
- foreach number [list 4910410 4910410 4910410 4910410 4910410] {
- log "Dialing $number"
- xmit "atdt $number\r"
- rexpect {CONNECT|BUSY} {
- case $0 in {
- CONNECT {set callresult SUCCEED; break}} } timeout
- sleep 3
- }
-
- case $callresult in {
- FAIL {log "calling failed aborting for $site"; abort} }
-
- # All OK
- log "Connected normally"
-
-
- Also, if you plan to use NewsGrazer, at least for me, I had to make a file
- called /etc/resolv.conf tha has the format:
- domain local-domain (like colostate.edu for Colorado State
- University)
- nameserver name-server
- nameserver name-server
- nameserver name-server
- nameserver name-server
- etc....
-
-
-
-
- I hope this helps, but be sure to read the manual!!!!!
- ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^
-
- -nate sammons
- ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu
-