slattach -- attach serial lines as network interfaces
slattach [-a] [-c] [-e exit-command] [-f] [-h] [-l] [-n] [-z] [-L]
[-r redial-command] [-s baudrate] [-u unit-command]
[-K keepalive] [-O outfill] [-S unit] ttyname
The slattach utility is used to assign a tty line to a network interface,
and to define the network source and destination addresses.
The following options are available:
-a Autoenable the VJ header compression option, if the other end of
the link is capable of VJ header compression then it will be used
otherwise normal headers will be used.
-c Enable the VJ header compression option. Note that both ends of
the link must be able to use VJ header compression for this to
work.
-e exit-command
Specify a command to be invoked within a shell `sh -c
exit-command' before slattach exits.
-f Disable the invocation of daemon() to run slattach in the background.
-h Turn on cts/rts style flow control on the slip port, by default
no flow control is done.
-l Disable modem control (CLOCAL) and ignore carrier detect on the
slip port. By default the redial-command is invoked upon carrier
drop and slattach aborts if no redial-command is specified.
-n Throw away ICMP packets. The slip interface will ignore ICMP
packets to prevent slow lines being saturated by ICMP responses.
-r redial-command
Specify a command to be invoked within a shell `sh -c
redial-command' whenever carrier is lost on the modem line.
Empty redial-command (i.e. -r "") cause connection reestablishing
on leased line without any external command invoked.
-s baudrate
Specify the speed of the connection. If not specified, the
default of 9600 is used.
-u unit-command
When the line is switched to slip discipline, run ``sh -c
unit-command old new'' where old and new are the slip unit numbers
when the line was last opened and the unit number of the
current slip connection respectively. The unit number can change
after redialing if you are using more than one slip line. When
slattach is connected for the first time, ``sh -c unit-command -1
new'' is run. When slattach is disconnected, ``sh -c
unit-command old -1'' is run. The slattach utility will abort if
the unit number changes and ``-u unit-command'' was not specified.
-z Force redial redial-command upon startup irrespective of carrier.
-L Use uucp-style device locking. You need it unless you start
slattach from external program which already does uucp locking.
Default case is no uucp locking to satisfy such programs.
-K keepalive
Set SLIP "keep alive" timeout in seconds. If FRAME_END is not
received in this amount of time, re-connect occurs. The default
value is no timeout.
-O outfill
Set SLIP "out fill" timeout in seconds. It forces at least one
FRAME_END to be sent during this time period, which is necessary
for the "keep alive" timeout on the remote side. The default
value is no timeout.
-S unit
Set the SLIP unit number directly. Use with caution, because no
check is made for two interfaces with same number. By default
sliplogin dynamically assigns the unit number.
ttyname
Specify the name of the tty device. Ttyname should be a string
of the form `ttyXX' or `/dev/ttyXX'.
Only the super-user may attach a network interface.
To detach the interface, use ``ifconfig interface-name down'' after
killing off the slattach process using `kill -INT'. Interface-name is
the name that is shown by netstat(1).
To setup slattach to redial the phone when carrier is lost, use the -r
redial-command option to specify a script or executable that will reconnect
the serial line to the slip server. For example, the script could
redial the server and log in, etc.
To reconfigure the network interface in case the slip unit number
changes, use the -u unit-command option to specify a script or executable
that will be invoked as `sh -c unit-command old new' where old and new
are the slip unit numbers before and after reconnecting the line. The
unit number can change if you have more than one line disconnect at the
same time. The first to succeed in reconnecting will get the lowest unit
number.
To kill slattach use `kill -INT' (SIGINT) which causes it to close the
tty and exit.
To force a redial, use `kill -HUP' (SIGHUP) which causes slattach to
think carrier was lost and thus invoke `sh -c redial-command' to reconnect
to the server.
If you use a hard-wired connection rather than a modem, invoke slattach
with the -l option in order to ignore carrier on the slip line.
slattach ttyd8
slattach -s 4800 /dev/ttyd1
slattach -c -s 38400 /dev/cuaa1
slattach -r 'kermit -y dial.script >kermit.log 2>&1'
Look for error messages in /var/log/messages (slattach is a daemon).
Messages indicating the specified interface does not exit, the requested
address is unknown, the user is not privileged and tried to alter an
interface's configuration are logged there. The slattach utility also
logs failure to set the controlling terminal or failure to install signal
handlers. Upon connection and redial the ttyname and baud rate are
logged and on shutdown the ttyname is logged.
/var/run/slattach.<tty>.pid with tty replaced by the terminal path
name component of ttyname. This file
contains the numerical process ID of the
slattach process and can be examined by
scripts in order to send a signal to
slattach
/usr/share/examples/slattach/*
netstat(1), startslip(1), uustat(1), netintro(4), ifconfig(8), rc(8),
sliplogin(8)
The slattach utility appeared in 4.3BSD.
FreeBSD 5.2.1 April 4, 1993 FreeBSD 5.2.1 [ Back ] |
