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Configuring Serial Lines
3.3 Setting Up a SLIP Interface
• With a U.S. Robotics Sportster modem, set the following values:
AT&B0 — Variable, follows connection rate (optional)
AT&H0 — Flow control disabled
AT&I0 — Software flow control disabled
4. Obtain IP addresses if necessary.
5. To dial in, follow these steps:
a. Enter the SET HOST /DTE command:
$ SET HOST /DTE TTnx
b. Type the telephone number. For example:
atdt telephone_number
c. The connected system displays its interactive (command mode) prompt.
You are talking to the terminal server and can now make the connection.
The following example shows a user named SLIP-USER at a PC named ROBIN
with a 9600-baud modem, using terminal device TTA2 and connecting it to the
port of a terminal server. In this example:
• The terminal server is a DECserver 700 terminal server.
• The user directs the modem to dial the telephone number 222-2222.
• The password prompt of the terminal server is # .
• The terminal server’s current login password is hootowl .
• The terminal server’s prompt is Local> .
• The user types Ctrl/\ (Ctrl key plus backslash) to escape from the terminal
server to the SLIP host.
• The user defines interface SL2 and identifies it as SLIP device TTA1: with IP
address 1.2.3.4. Communication on this line will use CSLIP.
$ SET HOST /DTE TTA2
%REM-I-TOQUIT, connection established
Press Ctrl/\ to quit, Ctrl/@ for command mode
atdt 2222222
CONNECT 9600
# hootowl (not echoed)
Network Access SW V1.5 for DS700-16
(c) Copyright 1994, Digital Equipment Corporation - All Rights Reserved
Please type HELP if you need assistance
Enter username>SLIP-USER
Local> CONNECT SLIP
Ctrl/\
TCPIP> SET INTERFACE SL2 /HOST=1.2.3.4 /NETWORK_MASK=255.255.255.0 -
_TCPIP> /SERIAL_DEVICE=TTA1: /COMPRESS=ON
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