Subject: Re: just upgraded, SLIP no longer works
To: Jeff Weisberg <jaw@magoo.roc.ny.us>
From: Quan Nguyen <quan@java.cc.mcgill.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/14/1994 08:36:04
On Sun, 13 Nov 1994, Jeff Weisberg wrote:

> This weekend I did the upgrade to 1.0 (from 0.9).
> 
> Under 0.9, to get SLIP up and running, it was sufficient to:
> 
> slattach tty00
> ifconfig sl0 192.168.201.1 broadcast 192.168.201.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add -host 192.168.201.2 -interface 192.168.201.1
> 
> (192.168.201.1 is the local box, 192.168.201.2 is the remote box)
> 
> I've tried various permutations of this, but now under 1.0 all I can
> get is "ping: sendto: No route to host".
>[...]

I had the same problem. I got it working again by forcing CD ON all the 
times from the modem side. Previously with release 0.9, I had my CD ON 
only when in sesion.

Quan,

PS: slattach has also been changed. To force compression you must use 
ifconfig link0 sl0.

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