SLATTACH(8)

NAME
slattach - attach serial lines as network interfaces

SYOPNSIS
Slattach ttyname [baudrate]

DESCRIPTION
Slattach is used to assign a tty line to a network interface, and to define 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 interface's configuration.

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

HISTORY
The slattach command appeared in 4.3BSD.