slattach

SYOPNSIS

     Slattach ttyname [baudrate]

DESCRIPTION

     Slattach is used to assign a tty line to a network interface, and to de-
     fine the network source and destination addresses.  The following
     operands are supported by slattach:

     ttyname       Specifies the name of the tty device.  Ttyname should be a
                   string of the form `ttyXX', or `/dev/ttyXX'.

     baudrate      Specifies the speed of the connection. If not specified,
                   the default of 9600 is used.

     Only the super-user may attach a network interface.

     To detach the interface, use ``ifconfig interface-name down'' after
     killing off the slattach process.  Interface-name is the name that is
     shown by netstat(1)

EXAMPLES

           slattach ttyh8
           slattach /dev/tty01 4800

DIAGNOSTICS

     Messages indicating the specified interface does not exit, the requested
     address is unknown, the user is not privileged and tried to alter an in-
     terface's configuration.

SEE ALSO

     netstat(1),  netintro(4),  ifconfig(8),  rc(8)

HISTORY

     The slattach command appeared in 4.3BSD.

4.3 Berkeley Distribution       March 16, 1991                               1