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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Slip for RT?
Keywords: Slip
Message-ID: <25@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 89 17:02:53 GMT
References: <684@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <684@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> chet@po.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) writes:
>Has anyone successfully run slip on an RT (preferably running AOS, but AIX
>info is welcome as well)?  Anything to look out for?  I'm looking for any
>kind of info I can get.

Async support in the stock Dec 88 release of AOS is completely bogus--
you'll lose characters all over the place, making SLIP essentially useless.
The fixes posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt (and available via UUCP from
ibmsupt) are said to correct this.  Also, the Sep 88 kernel works OK.

You'll want to use the buffered async board, in my experience, if you're
running at 9600 baud or 19.2kb--the older unbuffered board and the planar
ports lose characters regardless of the AOS revision.

Once you have this settled, SLIP works fine.  I had to hunt down on UUNET
slattach.c and compile and install it as /etc/slattach, since I didn't see
it in the distribution (maybe I messed up, I dunno.)  I've been running
for almost a year with a SLIP connection at 19.2kb.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu