From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: SLIP doesn't like dialins on two different 3.0 systems
Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
Organization: SoundSoftware, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:12:21 GMT


I have a friend with a NeXTcube who I regularly make SLIP connections with (we  
both call each other, so the slip interface is set up for dial-in and  
dial-out).  Back when he still had 2.1, I modified our routing tables to allow  
-NXHost over SLIP (and it worked with programs running on 2.1 and outputting  
PostScript to the machine running 3.0).

Now that he has upgraded to 3.0 also, we both get the following message when  
logging into the SLIP account:

Can't open TTY for "slip1" m

Does anyone know what might cause this message?

If I need to provide more configuration information, that can easily be  
supplied.

Here are our tables:
-------------------------
chernobog:brian> netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination      Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use  Interface
Schernobog       localhost          UH          0        0  lo0
localhost        localhost          UH          2     3421  lo0
sounds           Ssounds            UGH         0       20  slip1
nwpassage        Schernobog         UH          0        0  slip0
Ssounds          Schernobog         UH          0        0  slip1
default          nwpassage          UG          0        0  slip0
next-default     chernobog          U           7    84942  en0
chernobog:brian> netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination      Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use  Interface
192.135.191.105  127.0.0.1          UH          0        0  lo0
127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1          UH          2     3421  lo0
192.42.172.3     192.135.191.103    UGH         0       20  slip1
192.135.191.253  192.135.191.105    UH          0        0  slip0
192.135.191.103  192.135.191.105    UH          0        0  slip1
default          192.135.191.253    UG          0        0  slip0
192.42.172       192.42.172.1       U           7    84947  en0
-------------------------
sounds:brianw> netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination      Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use  Interface
chernobog        Schernobog         UGH         0       12  slip1
Schernobog       Ssounds            UH          0        0  slip1
localhost        localhost          UH          2      550  lo0
nwpassage        Ssounds            UH          0       24  slip0
Ssounds          localhost          UH          0        0  lo0
default          nwpassage          UG          0        0  slip0
next-default     sounds             U           9     1835  en0
sounds:brianw> netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination      Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use  Interface
192.42.172.1     192.135.191.105    UGH         0       12  slip1
192.135.191.105  192.135.191.103    UH          0        0  slip1
127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1          UH          2      550  lo0
192.135.191.253  192.135.191.103    UH          0       24  slip0
192.135.191.103  127.0.0.1          UH          0        0  lo0
default          192.135.191.253    UG          0        0  slip0
192.42.172       192.42.172.3       U           9     1840  en0
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Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Signal Processing Software and Consulting
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