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Re: SLIP slidin' away...
Chris, did you have success inbetween conecting to the Linux box?
> >4) Line speed, start/stop bits is setup correcly I assume.
>
> Yup, no problems there.
Well, since the 'ifconfig' output looks ok to me, I suspect the problem
here. Could you please send me the output of 'stty < /dev/modem'
and what 'route' says?
> >5) No other programs are running on the serial port concurrenly (like getty)?
>
> Nothing at my end; on the Linux box, I'm using uugetty, and AFAIK it
> disappears when you log on. If something was running on that end, it'd
> get some garbage back at least, wouldn't I? My receive-data light
> doesn't flicker at all...
>
> >6) Is the slip interface up, ie shows 'ifconfig sl0' something like:
> > % ifconfig sl0
> > sl0: flags=0x??<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUINNING>
> > link-level-flags=0x??
> > addr 100.0.0.1 dstaddr 100.1.0.1 netmask 100.255.255.255
> > metric 0 mtu ???
> > out-packets 0 out-errors 0 collsions 0
> > in-packets 0 in-errors 0
> > %
>
> Yup. I wonder if my netmask is set wrong, though.
The netmask is set to the default class A,B or C netmask of your IP address,
that should be correct in most cases, ie needs no hand fixing...
Must be a real strange thing that is bothering you...
Kay.
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