[nylug-talk] Advice needed-- would anyone still know how to setup a SLIP connection?

[Gregg Levine]

On 6/1/07, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/07, Peter C. Norton <spacey-nylug at lenin.net> wrote:
> > But if you can, use ppp. There were reasons that SLIP sucked.
> >
> > -Peter
> >
> > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:01:43PM -0400, Ezra Taylor wrote:
> > > Gregg:
> > >             You can use getty.  I did this with a moxa-uc7420.
> > >
> > > On 5/31/07, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > > I am currently working my way through a project. Eventually it will be
> > > > talking to my resident Linux box via one of many forms of networking,
> > > > but presently I dug up an idea based on this http://d116.com/ace/
> > > >
> > > > In there he gives instructions for setting up the connection from his
> > > > gizmo to his Linux box, but something seems incomplete about them,
> > > >
> > > > My project naturally isn't based on the gizmo described in those pages
> > > > however I felt its concept would apply.
> > > > --
> > > > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> > > > "This signature was once found posting rude
> > > > messages in English in the Moscow subway."
> > > >
> > > >  --
> > > Ezra Taylor
> > >
>
> Hello!
> Understood. It happens that for a purely local, meaning its only
> visible in my work area/home this method works for now.
>
> The difficult side will be in writing the software for the target.
> I've already got the Linux box showing me Ethereal and tcpdump traces
> as to what's going on and why SLIP packets, and sometimes PPP ones can
> be sometimes a mess.
>
> I did find an article from LinuxJournal dated in 1994 for a simple
> method of bringing together two dissimilar systems together, the only
> things that were similar about them was Linux running there, an Amiga
> for one and an Intel386DX for the other. Most of what the author wrote
> about I had already figured out, but its an interesting thing to see
> someone else going through the same aggravation that I went through in
> the beginning for this.
>
> If anyone is curious this is to enable an electronics project to
> present itself to the Linux box and be seen that way.

Hello!
Well this is where it gets stranger. Google Groups found me a post in
news://comp.os.linux.networking that describes my problem. It also
happens that it was tagged by me much earlier.

I do not know what the originals in this http://tinyurl.com/2crdcx
were thinking because for me, and for my system pairs it just works
properly.

I have both Trumpet stacks throwing packets as a ping at my Linux box,
the box is running Ethereal and confirms that the packets are shaped
properly and indicate that the laptop is close by.

The fun will come when I start writing the software to throw stuff at
the Linux box. More on that later in a different thread.
-- 
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
 messages in English in the Moscow subway."