SLIP and gnuEmacs

[John Garnett]

In article <4 at genieho.UUCP> darren at genieho.UUCP (Darren Holloway) writes:
>
>Has anybody gotten SLIP to work between AIX 2.2.1 RTs?  If so, could you 
>please explain to me how you get it to work?
>

yes, i've gotten SLIP to work between to AIX 2.2.1 RT's.  There are
at least two ways to do this. 

1) use a direct connect RS-232C serial connection (using a NULL modem
   cable).

2) use a RS-232C modem connection (i've tested this using 1200 Baud Hayes 
   Smartmodems and with 5853 IBM Modems).  The modem switch settings
   are important, but I'll have to post these tomorrow since I don't
   have them with me at the moment.

3) add a tty device using the "devices" command.  Use "ae false",
   "dvam 1", "rts 19200", "bpc 8", "pt none", "sns false", and "nosb 1" for
   the direct connect.  Change "rts 2400" and "sns true" for the modem
   connection (change 2400 to whatever is appropriate).

4) uncomment the sample tty0: stanza in the /etc/net file.  You will 
   need to change tty0 to some other tty if your SLIP line isn't attached
   to tty0.  Modify the dialstring parameter to reflect the phone number
   of the system on the receiving end.  If you are using direct connect
   or if you are configuring the receiving end, then comment out the
   dialstring parameter.  Also, set the netaddr and destaddr fields
   according to the internet addresses of the sending host and the
   receiving host.  Make sure that the network portion of the SLIP
   IP address if unique from the network portions of any other
   network interface configured on the machine (such as Ethernet,
   Token Ring, or another SLIP).

5) issue the "netconfig add -s tty0" command.

6) issue the "ifconfig tty0 up" command.

7) ping the remote host "ping hostname" to test the connection.

8) if the connection doesn't yet work, then run "sh /etc/tcp.clean"
   and "sh /etc/rc.tcpip" on both systems to restart TCP/IP.  If you
   are running NFS, be sure to restart it too.


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