On Jul 6,  3:40pm, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface

| The following reply was made to PR bin/33923; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
| To: christos@zoulas.com
| Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
| 	tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
| Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
| Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:39:06 +0900
| 
|  christos@zoulas.com wrote:
|  
|  > | >  | slattach: TIOCSETD: Device not configured
|  > | >  ifconfig sl0 create?
|  > | Umm, you are right.
|  > | I'll note about it sl(4) and slattach(8) man pages...
|  > 
|  > The question is: Should we just document this as you suggest, or should
|  > we make the creation/deletion automatic in slattach?
|  
|  Well, I'd prefer the latter, but I can do only the former
|  because I don't have a good idea how to modify slattach
|  to create interfaces automatically. Currently it doesn't
|  take an interface name arg.

Right, unlike pppd I don't think that slattach has a way to tell bind to
slX, or even find what you are bound. So let's fix the man page, for now.

christos