🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <67@faatcrl.UUCP> jimb@faatcrl.UUCP (Jim Burwell) writes:

> Now the fun part.  I figured that the release note didn't have any 
> documentation about any of the spiffy new features it described because
> it would be easy to figure out using the OS's on-line help.  I was wrong.
> After using lots of creative commands in an attempt to set our SLIP 
> address dynamically, I gave up and decided to go back out to the ftp
> site to get the docs for 8.1.  Was I in for a shock.  
> 
> There were no docs available!  Reading the README thingy that comes up
> on that site when you try to get a directory a little more closely, I
> noticed that it said that docs were available for $50 a copy.  Sigh.
> When I first learned of the availability of new revisions of the OS 
> on a public FTP site, I thought, "what a cool company!  They don't
> charge for OS upgrades!".  I suppose I was being naive, which I'm prone
> to do at times.  :-)  TANSTAAFL proves to be true again.
> 
> Someone, please prove me wrong.  By the time the people I work with grind
> the paperwork through for approving the purchase of the docs, we'll
> be at CISCO revision 13.79 or something.  :-)  (the way things work, it
> would probably be faster/easier to get 'em to buy another Cisco box.
> Hopefully they'd ship the latest OS and docs with it :-).

The command you are looking for is "slip interactive". This will turn
on SLIP on a already assigned ip address terminal port. But you do not
have to do this since it is on by the default when you assigned the
SLIP IP address. So

line 1
slip address ip-address-number
slip interactive [optional command]

Once you configured this port, login into your cisco dial-up with your
tip program and say "slip" at the exec prompt. Turn on SLIP on your
local machine. You should now be talking SLIP between the cisco and
the host machine to your network.

The default SLIP parameters are a mtu of 1500 bytes and maximum output
queue size of 2 packets from the SLIP client to the network.

The on-line help (exec-level) is for general terminal parameters
changes, not system wide configuration changes. Added a "slip address
ip-address-number" is a configuration change.

And yes, they do ship the newest release software release and manual
with a cisco box order. Upgrading to the newest ROMS within the
warranty period is free. The last ROMS upgrade, I ask and received a
manual, also.
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