SLATTACH(8) MachTen System Manager’s Manual SLATTACH(8)

NAME
slattach - attach serial lines as network interfaces

SYNOPSIS
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 April 1, 1994 1