NAME

sl − Serial Line Internet Protocol

DESCRIPTION

The sl or Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) line discipline sends IP packets with the normal serial line device drivers.  Because the sl interface is a point-to-point link, it must have network addresses assigned for both the source and destination interfaces used.  These addresses may be set or changed with the ioctl calls ­SIOCSIFADDR and ­SIOCSIFDSTADDR. 

The most common procedure is to enable the sl network interface and then connect it to another system running SLIP using the slattach(1M) or sllogin(1M) commands.

SEE ALSO

slattach(1M), sllogin(1M), inet(7). 

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