>Number:         189
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       ifconfig "link[0-2]" options for slip not documented
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (Misc Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 31 20:35:04 1994
>Originator:     Mark Weaver
>Organization:
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Email: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu           | Brown University
PGP Key: finger mhw@cs.brown.edu       | Dept of Computer Science
>Release:        current-940331
>Environment:

System: NetBSD cis-ts3-slip4.cis.brown.edu 0.9a EXCELSIOR#0 i386

>Description:

	Somewhere around Dec 10, 1993, SLIP's compression options
	were moved from slattach to ifconfig.  The new "link[0-2]"
	options are not documented in any man page I am aware of.

	The following message from cgd describes the change:

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From: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Cc: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: notes for users of sliplogin and/or slattach...
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 06:26:50 -0800

notes about some changes to sliplogin/slattach/SLIP:

pathnames for sliplogin config files have changed; RTFM.
if you were using sliplogin, move your config files...

way to specify SLIP options has changed.  don't do it with flags
to slattach or with the old strings in slip.hosts.

for slattach, use ifconfig's link[0-2] options.
link0 = use compression
link1 = no icmp
link2 = autoenable compression

similar for slip.hosts; replace the old options you were using
with the link[0-3] as appropriate.  take a look at the default config
files for more info...




cgd
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>How-To-Repeat:

	N/A
	
>Fix:

I'm not sure where you want this documented, so I can't give you a
patch.  I'd assume it would go in either slattach(1) or ifconfig(1)
though.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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