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2 total messages Started by Marko Pekka Juhani Niinimaki Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:00

#451

Author: Marko Pekka Juhani Niinimaki
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:00

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Hello,

I'm trying to put up a dial-up connection using Debian linux 2.0 and
'slip' module (listed in /etc/modules). The slip module starts up
and displays its version (0.84) among the console messages.
But the device (sl0) does not show up, ifconfig only shows lo
(the loopback device). Am I missing out something?

Yours,
Marko
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Re: no sl0

#452

Author: kite inetport.com Clifford Kite
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:00

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Marko Pekka Juhani Niinimaki (man@atlas02.cern.ch) wrote:

> I'm trying to put up a dial-up connection using Debian linux 2.0 and
> 'slip' module (listed in /etc/modules). The slip module starts up
> and displays its version (0.84) among the console messages.
> But the device (sl0) does not show up, ifconfig only shows lo
> (the loopback device). Am I missing out something?

The SLIP interface is created by the kernel when one is requested by
a user application.  It's removed when the application is finished.

Unless you have some special need for slip you might be better off
with PPP since the programs (dip, slattach) that use SLIP are not
well-maintained, if they are maintained at all.

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