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SLIP for Solaris 2.3 - HOW? WHERE?

SLIP for Solaris 2.3 - HOW? WHERE?

Post by Andy Polyak » Fri, 09 Sep 1994 23:18:37



>  Solaris2.x_pkg.tar is an SVR4 "package" for SPARC systems running Solaris
>  2.1 or later. It includes pcnfsd, SLIP, and RFC1312 messaging components.

>  No documentation is provided for the installation of the last two items.
>  Please don't install either item unless you know what you're doing. If
>  in doubt, purchase a copy of PC-NFS 5.0, which includes full documentation.

>  Geoff Arnold
>  PC-NFS architect
>  SunSelect, A Sun Microsystems Business



People have right to know that PC-NFS 5.0 slip driver does NOT work
under Solaris 2.3 (works fine under 2.2). It complains about some MP
mode (I don't remember what). SunSelect has PC-NFS 5.1, but
unfortunately I don't know if it (slip) works under 2.3. Maybe somebody
can tell. What I was running under 2.3 (for some time until I got
terminal server to do the job) is some PD port made by Bruce Orchard,
which eventually was not possible to compile under 2.3, but compiled
under 2.2 was working nice under 2.3 (after minor changes I had to make
to enable hardware flow control). Unfortunately I don't have source
code, nor ftp site, so the only way to broadcast a call for Bruce...

Andy.

 
 
 
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SLIP for Solaris 2.3 - HOW? WHERE?

Post by Jaanus Ra » Thu, 15 Sep 1994 19:49:38


: People have right to know that PC-NFS 5.0 slip driver does NOT work
: under Solaris 2.3 (works fine under 2.2). It complains about some MP

It will work, if you install patch 101275-02.

Jaanus

 
 
 
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SLIP for Solaris 2.3 - HOW? WHERE?

Post by Tristan Warde » Fri, 16 Sep 1994 07:43:29




>People have right to know that PC-NFS 5.0 slip driver does NOT work
>under Solaris 2.3 (works fine under 2.2). It complains about some MP
>mode (I don't remember what). SunSelect has PC-NFS 5.1, but
>unfortunately I don't know if it (slip) works under 2.3. Maybe somebody
>can tell. What I was running under 2.3 (for some time until I got

>Andy.

I have gotton the PC-NFS 5.1 SLIP to work with Solaris 2.3 with no patches
on a SPARC 2.  However, it only works when a PC-NFS pc calls the SUN and
the SLIP executable installed.  There was not a daemon that run on the
SUN, instead the PC calls, logs in and runs an executable in /etc called
sunslip.  I believe that sunslip then takes over the tty and sends some
info to the PC to tell it to start it's SLIP drive.

I tried to get a SUN to SUN thing working but a SUN support guy told me
that it is very hard ("herioc efforts") to do.  However, I got it to work
for a laboratory environment in that when the user (other machine) calls
I ran slattach manually and it worked just fine.

Of course I could be way off base and be totally wrong.

--

       Applied Computing Systems, Inc.

 
 
 
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SLIP for Solaris 2.3 - HOW? WHERE?

Post by Arno A. Karne » Fri, 16 Sep 1994 11:13:32


On 14 Sep 1994 10:49:38 GMT,


>: People have right to know that PC-NFS 5.0 slip driver does NOT work
>: under Solaris 2.3 (works fine under 2.2). It complains about some MP

>It will work, if you install patch 101275-02.

>Jaanus

any wouldn't happen to know what the x86 equivalent patch is would they.

Arno A. Karner From: my dos box because my solaris can't do the job!

 
 
 
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1. SLIP for Solaris 2.3: slip-solaris-3

I have been trying to use Bruce Orchard's slip-solaris-3 to make slip
connections from my Solaris 2.3 system.  So far I have been
unsuccessful, and wonder if anyone can help.

I tip into my slip server, which delivers the appropriate Internet
addresses (in dotted form).  Then I run slip-attach with these
addresses, and this completes fine.  But pinging the server then
fails, as does everything else.  The modem lights indicate that I am
sending out packets to the server, but I am not getting anything back.
Any pointers?

Two notes:
1) In a recent article by Jason Davis on PPP (Id no longer available),
he writes that for PPP it is necessary to tell the network how to
route packets back to the remote client using arp.  Perhaps the same
problem arises with SLIP?  If so, what kind of object is required for
the first argument in:
        arp -s ???? "Ethernet address of client" -pub
It doesn't accept the dotted Internet addresses delivered by the
server, but what else could there be?  Perhaps this is a blind alley.

2) In the slip dox, it states that the modem must not follow DTR
(AT&D0).  If your modem is set to do this, then the tip process grabs
the CPU and drives the load through the roof.  Killing tip returns
normality, but closes the modem connection.  I mention this, since I
wrestled with this for the longest time, and figure that there is
little reason for anyone else to.

Any help greatly appreciated -- Dave
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