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Article #6669Re: cslip network device
From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
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Hi there Philip Stokes, I believe it was you who said:
> Jonathan Waland (walaj@abstruse.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>> Philip Stokes (phil@stokes.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>>
>> : AFAIK there are no others that have integrated dialers, unless you buy
>> : AmiTCP 4.3. Other than that, there are rhslip and rhcslip devices in
>> : AmiTCP demo, and an 030 version of rhcslip.device on Aminet:
>> :
>> : rhslip38.9_030.lha comm/net 54K 64+Sana2 (c)slip.device, 030 version
>>
>> ok, does rhslip automatically degrad from cslip to slip (which considering
>> the state of the modems at demon is almost a mandatory requirement)?
> I use ppp.device, so I can't speak from experience, but AFAIK all
> current Amiga CSLIP drivers will degrade to SLIP.
>> (how much work is it likely to be to install considering I use the DISA
>> amitcp system?)
> You'll need a separate dialer such as dialer.device (which is included
> in the DIS-96 archive). Drop rhcslip in Devs:Networks and alter the
> cslip0 entry in db/interfaces to refer to rhcslip.device.
> Env:Sana2/cslip0.config has to point to dialer.device instead of your
> serial.device. Put the name of your serial.device in dialer0.config
> along with your baud rate and login responses and you're away.
> Having said that I'd recommend going along with Neil's suggestion to
> use (and register) ppp.device rather than sticking with a slip driver.
> Phil
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Neil
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