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- From: jgreco@solaria.mil.wi.us (Joe Greco)
- Subject: Re: SLIP for SUN 3/60
- Message-ID: <BxL7Hr.A6t@solaria.mil.wi.us>
- Keywords: SLIP
- Organization: Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI
- References: <1992Nov11.135325.1957@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:05:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.135325.1957@bmerh85.bnr.ca> csanii@bmera226.bnr.ca (Cyrus Sanii) writes:
- >Has anyone gotten SLIP on a SUN 3/60 to work? If so where can
- >I get the code from? Also is there a SLIP on the SUN for X-windows?
- >I realize it will not be fast but all I want is to get it to work.
- >Please post responses to this newsgroup so others may see it too.
-
- The kernel I am running right now runs both SLIP and PPP. However, I have
- not been too happy with the user-side interface. I'd like to have both
- dial-in and dial-out options available, and one of the problems I've run
- into is the lack of programs which handle carrier loss in an appropriate
- fashion (ie, pop the slip streams drivers off, kill the route, and exit) -
- I was working on this many months ago and had written some promising code
- until I decided it would be easier to let the Sun use it's serial ports for
- normal uses, pop an Ethernet card in a PC, and gain higher speed SLIP/PPP
- capability while eliminating the occasional kernel panics I was inflicting
- on a machine many people use.
-
- It would still be nice to have a reliable dial-in SLIP/PPP capability
- that can handle carrier loss correctly. Does anybody know of a package
- that will handle this?
-
- I believe I got my sources from Colorado SuperNet, but they are the same
- sources widely available. I had to do minor tweaking to encourage consistent
- naming of the pseudo-device with the csn package, as I recall.
-
- ... Joe
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