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Configuring the Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)

Dynamic incoming link characteristics

An incoming SLIP link permits the local system to accept an incoming SLIP connection request from a remote host using a getty(M) process running on the local system. This type of link requires a login account in the /etc/passwd file on the local host. A remote host wishing to initiate a SLIP link with the local host must use a dynamic outgoing type of link, and must specify this account name and its associated password in the UUCP Systems file.

When you use the Network Configuration Manager to configure this type of link, it creates a SLIP login account which uses a special shell script instead of a standard shell. The shell script must execute an slattach command to establish the SLIP link. See ``Adding a SLIP link'' for more details.

You must configure the remote side to use a dynamic outgoing link type for its end of the link. See ``Dynamic outgoing link characteristics'' for details about this type of link.


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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003