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20: .TH SLATTACH 8 "June 24, 1990"
21: .UC 6
22: .SH NAME
23: slattach \- attach serial lines as network interfaces
24: .SH SYOPNSIS
25: .B slattach
26: ttyname [
27: .I baudrate
28: ]
29: .SH DESCRIPTION
30: .I Slattach
31: is used to assign a tty line to a network interface,
32: and to define the network source and destination addresses. The
33: .I ttyname
34: parameter is a string of the form ``ttyXX'', or ``/dev/ttyXX''.
35: The optional
36: .I baudrate
37: parameter is used to set the speed of the connection. If not specified, the
38: default of 9600 is used.
39: .PP
40: Only the super-user may attach a network interface.
41: .PP
42: To detach the interface, use `ifconfig
43: .I interface-name
44: down' after killing off the
45: .I slattach
46: process.
47: .I interface-name
48: is the name that is shown by
49: .B netstat(1)
50: .SH EXAMPLES
51: .ta 8
52: slattach ttyh8
53: .br
54: slattach /dev/tty01 4800
55: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
56: Messages indicating the specified interface does not exit, the
57: requested address is unknown, the user is not privileged and
58: tried to alter an interface's configuration.
59: .SH "SEE ALSO"
60: netstat(1), netintro(4), ifconfig(8), rc(8)
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