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- This file describes the use of the SANA-II SLIP device driver.
-
- Insallation
- -----------
-
- Place the file named 'slip.device' in DEVS:Networks, or wherever you are
- currently storing your SANA-II devce drivers. Next, copy the slip0.config
- file to ENVARC:Sana2/slip0.config. If you are planning on using multiple
- SLIP units, you will need a separate configuration file for each unit.
- The file's are named cslip[unit number].config. So, SLIP unit 5 would
- have a configuration file named slip5.config. Currently, there is a
- limitation of eight SLIP units, 0-7. Please see the included slip0.config
- file for an explanation of how the file should be set up.
-
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- If you are using the slip.device to connect to a dedicated line, you should
- leave out the 'CD' option in the configuration file. You should set the
- baud rate to that used by the other end of the line.
-
- If you are using the slip.device to connect to a dial-up slip connection,
- you will need to configure your modem to ignore the DTR signal from your
- Amiga. Next, you will need to use a terminal program to dial the slip
- line. Once you have connected, quit the terminal program. Then, use
- the 'online' CLI command to tell the slip.device to attach itself to the
- serial port. The command line should look something like:
-
- 1.> online slip.device 0
-
- Where 0 is the slip.device unit number. Unfortunately there isn't an
- easy way to get slip.device to hang up the phone. The easiest way is
- to just turn your modem off, which should cause carrier to drop and cause
- slip.device to go offline.
-
- You may also tell slip.device to go offline by using the 'offline' command.
- (Both online and offline use ReadArgs(), so specifiying a '?' argument
- will give you their usage strings.)
-
-
- Header Compression (CSLIP)
- --------------------------
-
- This version of slip.device supports Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression,
- commonly referred to as CSLIP. Whether or not header compression will be
- used is controlled by two options in the config file. There are basically
- three modes the slip.device can be in: Compression off, Compression on, and
- Automatic. Please refere to the included configuration file for more
- details.
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