SLIP slipping away

[Sin]

I wasn't going to ask before, but I guess curiosity got the best of me. 
I've been working for an ISP for the past 8 years, so PPP and SLIP talk 
comes up alot. I don't usually post, just read, however I am curious about 
what kind of application could possibly be using slip as opposed to ppp 
now-a-days ??


> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty setting up a SLIP connection between a Debian 4.0 
> box
> and FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE. I have enabled the sl driver in the kernel. I have
> tried using slattach on /dev/cuad0 (usually "slattach -s 115200 
> /dev/cuad0)
> only to watch slattach immediately die with no output as to why. If I give
> the -l option it creates the sl0 interface but will not accept traffic.
> Reading through the years old FAQs states that a 'netstat -i' with the sl
> driver installed should show sl interfaces but netstat does not list any 
> sl
> interfaces. I have tried to load the kernel module if_sl but I have had no
> success.
>
> Has anyone on this list had any success with using SLIP?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kai Lockwood