Modify the handbook to reflect the re-addition of the SLIP link options

to sliplogin.
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Nate Williams 1995-12-04 06:13:10 +00:00
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This guide was originally written for SLIP Server services on a
FreeBSD 1.x system. It has been modified to reflect changes in the
pathnames and the removal of the SLIP interface compression flags in
FreeBSD 2.x, which appear to be the only major changes between
FreeBSD versions. If you do run encounter mistakes in this document,
please email the author with enough information to help correct the
problem.
early versions of FreeBSD 2, which appear to be the only major
changes between FreeBSD versions. If you do encounter mistakes in
this document, please email the author with enough information to
help correct the problem.
For FreeBSD 1.x users, all of the files referenced in the directory
<tt>/etc/sliphome</tt> are actually in the <tt>/etc</tt> directory.
@ -237,11 +237,11 @@ At the end of the line is one or more of the options.
dropped instead of using up your bandwidth)
</itemize>
It appears that <tt/sliplogin/ under FreeBSD 2.x ignores the options
that FreeBSD 1.x recognized, so the options <tt/normal/,
<tt/compress/, <tt/autocomp/, and <tt/noicmp/ will have no effect
under FreeBSD 2.x unless your <tt/slip.login/ script includes code to
make use of the flags.
Note that <tt/sliplogin/ under early releases of FreeBSD 2 ignored
the options that FreeBSD 1.x recognized, so the options
<tt/normal/, <tt/compress/, <tt/autocomp/, and <tt/noicmp/ had no effect
until support was added in FreeBSD 2.2 (unless your <tt/slip.login/ script
included code to make use of the flags).
Your choice of local and remote addresses for your SLIP links depends
on whether you are going to dedicate a TCP/IP subnet or if you are