[2884] in Release_Engineering
Re: Slattach in 7.4 is dodo.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Sun Jun 21 14:18:22 1992
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 92 14:18:02 -0400
From: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: rel-eng@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Bill Cattey's message of Sat, 20 Jun 1992 02:34:57 -0400 (EDT),
Reply-To: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU
Bill,
SLIP is not supported as part of the release, so I don't think
you should be sending mail to rel-eng about it. The reason why
/srvd/etc/slattach doesn't work is that SLIP (and the slattach) which is
in the Athena kernel does not support header compression. The SLIP in
the kernel which I provided to you, does support header compression, but
it requires a different version of slattach.
So there's nothing wrong with the slattach that's in the
release; it's just not compatible with the version of SLIP in the kernel
I provided you. If you want to champion including SLIP with header
compression into the Vax and RT kernel, by my guest; you can tell the
ART team that I've running with the new code without any side effects,
and that integrating the new code into the kenerl is a very simple
operation --- so simple, in fact, that it's much easier for me to go and
build a new kernel each time rather than to champion putting it into the
next release. :-)
- Ted
