[ale] {Disarmed} Re: ip over serial

[Michael Trausch]

If possible, use PPP.

Can post setup info tomorrow if desired. I used to use it both over serial and over UDP for tunnels before I started using better methods for VPN. 

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> On Oct 23, 2014, at 7:09 PM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 17:13 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Doesn't sl0 need to be in a different network from the ptp address? So
>> MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious: 10.10.11.1
>> for sl0
> 
> No but there's no netmask specified and, seriously, SLIP?  Good god that
> brings back old ancient nightmares.
> 
> I remember Novell IPX (old IPX/SPX) had checksums disabled and relied,
> instead, on the link layer checksumming for performance reasons.  SLIP
> (as opposed to PPP) had no checksumming on the link layer.  What could
> possibly go wrong.  I would never use SLIP in production.
> 
>> On October 23, 2014 4:50:46 PM EDT, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>        I'm doind the old 
>>        slattach sl0 -p cslip -s 19200 /dev/ttyS0
>>        ifconfig sl0 10.10.10.1 pointtopoint 10.10.10.2 up
>>        But sl0 gets 10,10.10.2 address
>>        What could be wrong
>>        Bad ifconfig in busybox maybe?
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jim Kinney
>> Linux Systems Analyst
>> Physicist/Brewer
>> http://jimkinney.us
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
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