Re: Where is my SLIP interface

Don't ask why, but running 'slattach -l /dev/cuaa0' works....
No modem is connect now so it could be the -l stuff.
And slattach would be waiting for my modem to signal things.

it created sl1 but who am I to complain.

Thanx for getting me on my way again...
--WjW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernd Walter" <ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de>
To: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw_at_withagen.nl>
Cc: <current_at_freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Where is my SLIP interface


> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:47:53PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> > From: "Bernd Walter" <ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de>
> > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:49:18PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > But am I to understand that running slattach creates the sl0 device?? by
> > something like 'ifconfig sl0 create'?
> > Or is slattach just loading the module which makes sl0 appear?
>
> slattach creates and removes the device.
> It doesn't make much sense to have a slip device alone IMO.
>
> [51]cicely13# kldstat -v | grep sl
>                 88 if_sl
> [52]cicely13# ifconfig sl0
> ifconfig: interface sl0 does not exist
> Exit 1
> [53]cicely13# slattach -l /dev/cuaa0
> /var/run/slattach.cuaa0.pid
> [54]cicely13# ifconfig sl0
> sl0: flags=8011<UP,POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 552
> [55]cicely13# kill `cat /var/run/slattach.cuaa0.pid`
> [56]cicely13# ifconfig sl0
> ifconfig: interface sl0 does not exist
> Exit 1
>
> -- 
> B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
> ticso_at_bwct.de                                  info_at_bwct.de
>
>