SLIP network unreachable problems!

[Andrew Tubbiolo]

Help!

Im running Linux 1.2.8, and Im trying to get slip to work. Im have a 288
modem, and I'm trying to connect to a sun sparc 1 also with a 28800. After I
connect in and fire up slirp...My computing aparat wont support slip, and
fire up a slattach /dev/cua1 &, I try to telnet to my host, and I get a
network
unreachable error. I think it's bacause maybe my machine only thinks it a
loopback.
Any ideas? Oh I have already defined the local Ip to be something else besides
loopback. But when I try to telnet to the local name it says the net is un
reachable.
It only works when I telnet to the loopback address.

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[Christopher J. White]

In article <3r292u$a...@news.ccit.arizona.edu>,

Andrew Tubbiolo <enigma@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE> wrote:
>Help!
>
> Im running Linux 1.2.8, and Im trying to get slip to work. Im have a 288
>modem, and I'm trying to connect to a sun sparc 1 also with a 28800. After I
>connect in and fire up slirp...My computing aparat wont support slip, and
>fire up a slattach /dev/cua1 &, I try to telnet to my host, and I get a
>network
>unreachable error.

Sounds like you forgot to add the proper routes, for your home compter
host1 and the remote host2, try the following after the slattach:

/usr/sbin/ifconfig sl0 host1 pointopoint host2
/sbin/route add host2
/sbin/route add default gw host2

This first command configures the serial interface (assuming sl0).
Not the spelling of pointopoint.

The second command adds a route the host on the other end, and the
last says that for an packets not on the local net, send them through
the gateway host2.

Hope this helps!

(Hey, do you Jen Grier out ther at lpl.arizona.edu? If so, say hi
from her brother-in-law in St. Louis!)

cj white

Christopher J. White
Washington University in St. Louis
cjw...@rgit.wustl.edu