NAME

slattach − set up one end of a SLIP link

SYNOPSIS

slattach speed local-address remote-address [ifconfig args]

DESCRIPTION

slattach starts the SLIP protocol on the device connected to its standard input.  A typical usage is a line in /etc/inet/network-config, such as:

# Permanent SLIP connection to remoteaddr via term/ql05
/usr/amiga/bin/slattach 19200 localaddr remoteaddr < /dev/term/ql05 &

This example starts SLIP on a directly-connected serial link, using localaddr as the address for the local end, and remoteaddr as the address for the remote end. 

Theoretically, slattach can be run dynamically on a dialup connection, but the description of how this is done is too large to fit in this small man page. 

Once SLIP has started, slattach becomes a demon, holding the SLIP protocol modules in place.  If slattach is killed by SIGTERM or SIGHUP, it will shut down the SLIP protocol before exiting. 

For slattach to work, the slip driver must have been linked into the IP multiplexer.  This is normally done with "slink addslip" commands in /etc/inet/network-config. 

DIAGNOSTICS

If slattach fails to set up the SLIP protocol, it will print an appropriate error message and exit.  slattach invokes ifconfig, so errors may be reported by ifconfig as well. 

FILES

/etc/inet/network-config - commands for boot-time network setup

SEE ALSO

ifconfig(1), netstat(1), slink(1). 

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