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32 .\" @(#)slattach.8 6.4 (Berkeley) 3/16/91
34 .\" $FreeBSD: src/sbin/slattach/slattach.8,v 1.16.2.6 2003/02/23 21:17:43 trhodes Exp $
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42 .Nd attach serial lines as network interfaces
47 .Op Fl e Ar exit-command
54 .Op Fl r Ar redial-command
56 .Op Fl u Ar unit-command
64 utility is used to assign a tty line to a network interface,
65 and to define the network source and destination addresses.
67 The following options are available:
68 .Bl -tag -width indent
70 Autoenable the VJ header compression option, if the other end of the link
71 is capable of VJ header compression then it will be used otherwise normal
74 Enable the VJ header compression option. Note that both ends of the link
75 must be able to use VJ header compression for this to work.
76 .It Fl e Ar exit-command
77 Specify a command to be invoked within a shell
78 .Ql sh \-c Ar exit-command
83 Disable the invocation of daemon() to run
87 Turn on cts/rts style flow control on the slip port, by default no flow
90 Disable modem control (CLOCAL) and ignore carrier detect on the slip
93 is invoked upon carrier drop and
99 Throw away ICMP packets. The slip interface will ignore ICMP packets
100 to prevent slow lines being saturated by ICMP responses.
101 .It Fl r Ar redial-command
102 Specify a command to be invoked within a shell
103 .Ql sh \-c Ar redial-command
104 whenever carrier is lost on the modem line.
109 cause connection reestablishing on leased line
110 without any external command invoked.
112 Specify the speed of the connection.
113 If not specified, the
114 default of 9600 is used.
115 .It Fl u Ar unit-command
116 When the line is switched to slip discipline, run
117 .Dq Nm "sh -c" Ar unit-command old new
122 are the slip unit numbers when the line was
123 last opened and the unit number of the current slip connection
124 respectively. The unit number can change after redialing if you are
125 using more than one slip line.
128 is connected for the first time,
129 .Dq Nm "sh -c" Ar unit-command \-1 new
134 .Dq Nm "sh -c" Ar unit-command old \-1
138 utility will abort if the unit number
140 .Dq Fl u Ar \%unit-command
145 upon startup irrespective of carrier.
147 Use uucp-style device locking.
148 You need it unless you start
150 from external program which already does uucp locking.
151 Default case is no uucp locking to satisfy such programs.
152 .It Fl K Ar keepalive
153 Set SLIP "keep alive" timeout in seconds.
154 If FRAME_END is not received in
155 this amount of time, re-connect occurs.
156 The default value is no timeout.
158 Set SLIP "out fill" timeout in seconds. It forces at least one FRAME_END
159 to be sent during this time period, which is necessary for the "keep alive"
160 timeout on the remote side.
161 The default value is no timeout.
163 Set the SLIP unit number directly.
164 Use with caution, because no check is made
165 for two interfaces with same number.
166 By default sliplogin dynamically assigns the unit number.
168 Specify the name of the tty device.
170 should be a string of the form
176 Only the super-user may attach a network interface.
178 To detach the interface, use
179 .Dq Li ifconfig interface-name down
180 after killing off the
185 is the name that is shown by
190 to redial the phone when carrier is lost, use the
191 .Fl r Ar redial-command
192 option to specify a script or executable that will reconnect the
193 serial line to the slip server. For example, the script could redial
194 the server and log in, etc.
196 To reconfigure the network interface in case the slip unit number
198 .Fl u Ar unit-command
199 option to specify a script or executable that will be invoked as
200 .Ql sh \-c Ar unit-command old new
205 are the slip unit numbers before and after
206 reconnecting the line. The unit number can change if you have more
207 than one line disconnect at the same time. The first to succeed in
208 reconnecting will get the lowest unit number.
215 which causes it to close the tty and exit.
217 To force a redial, use
222 to think carrier was lost and thus invoke
223 .Ql sh \-c Ar redial-command
224 to reconnect to the server.
226 If you use a hard-wired connection rather than a modem, invoke
230 option in order to ignore carrier on the slip line.
232 .Bl -tag -width /usr/share/examples/slattach/* -compact
233 .It Pa /var/run/slattach.<tty>.pid
236 replaced by the terminal path name component of
238 This file contains the numerical process ID of the
240 process and can be examined by scripts in order to send a signal to
242 .It Pa /usr/share/examples/slattach/*
245 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
247 slattach \-s 4800 /dev/ttyd1
248 slattach \-c \-s 38400 /dev/cuaa1
249 slattach \-r 'kermit -y dial.script >kermit.log 2>&1'
252 Look for error messages in
253 .Pa /var/log/messages
256 Messages indicating the specified interface does not exit, the
257 requested address is unknown, the user is not privileged and tried to
258 alter an interface's configuration are logged there.
262 also logs failure to set the controlling terminal or failure to install
263 signal handlers. Upon connection and redial the ttyname and baud rate
264 are logged and on shutdown the ttyname is logged.