Trouble getting Slip to work (as a server)

[Tas Dienes]

Slip folks,

I've been trying to get a NeXT to act as a slip server for another NeXT,
using SLIP_920506, but with no success. I created an account with the login
shell set up for slip0, set up the config files, etc, but if I log in to the
slip account and ping the machine that the sever is supposed to serve,
nothing comes out. I would expect to see some packets being thrown out, but
that does not happen. I set up a proxy arp for the remote host on the sever,
routing looks ok, but the packets disappear. If anybody has a clue as to
what might be wrong, I'd love to know. If anybody has a working server set
up and could send me their configuration files, that would be great. My
config.slip is shown below:

SLIP0LOCAL=134.173.11.229
SLIP0REMOTE=134.174.11.195
SLIP0NETMASK=255.255.255.0
SLIP0CONFIG=SLIP
# SLIP0CONFIG=CSLIP
SLIP0DEFAULT=NO

The ethernet interface on this machine is 134.173.4.229, in case it matters.
Also, for test purposes I'm telnetting to the server and logging on as the
slip account, rather than via serial port, but I can't see how that should
matter. It logs on fine and gives the "DialUpIP connected..." message.

Thanks,

-Tas

[Louis A. Mamakos]

In article <1992Jun13....@muddcs.claremont.edu> t...@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Tas Dienes) writes:
>The ethernet interface on this machine is 134.173.4.229, in case it matters.
>Also, for test purposes I'm telnetting to the server and logging on as the
>slip account, rather than via serial port, but I can't see how that should
>matter. It logs on fine and gives the "DialUpIP connected..." message.

The SLIP line discipline does not work on pseudo-ttys, which is what you
get when you telnet into the box. You must use the hardware serial port.

Also, you probably want to get the later version off of the archive sites
if you are starting any serious work. The docs also mention the restriction
regarding pty's and SLIP.

louie