Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/06/2006 19:10:04
The following reply was made to PR bin/33923; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:13:51 +0100

 On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:20:03PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 >  
 >  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.
 
 This also affects the code in sysinst that got added to support slip
 - unless you know enough to create the link by hand it can't work.
 If you know that much you can run ifconfig (etc) yourself...
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk