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### 5.3.3.1 Static IP address SLIP connections using dip

If you are using a static-allocation SLIP server, you may want to include entries for your IP address and hostname in `/etc/hosts`. Also, configure these files listed in the above section: `rc.inet2`, `host.conf`, and `resolv.conf`.

Also, configure `rc.inet1`, as described above. However, you only want to execute `ifconfig` and `route` commands for the loopback device. If you use `dip` to connect to the SLIP server, it will execute the appropriate `ifconfig` and `route` commands for the SLIP device for you. (If you're using `slattach`, on the other hand, you will need to include `ifconfig`/`route` commands in `rc.inet1` for the SLIP device---see below.)

`dip` should configure your routing tables appropriately for the SLIP connection when you connect. In some cases, however, `dip`'s behavior may not be correct for your configuration, and you'll have to run `ifconfig` or `route` commands by hand after connecting to the server with `dip` (this is most easily done from within a shell script that runs `dip` and immediately executes the appropriate configuration commands). Your gateway is, in most cases, the address of the SLIP server. You may know this address before hand, or the gateway address will be printed by the SLIP server when you connect. Your `dip` chat script (described below) can obtain this information from the SLIP server.

`ifconfig` may require use of the `pointopoint` argument, if `dip` doesn't configure the interface correctly. For example, if your SLIP server address is 128.253.154.2, and your IP address is 128.253.154.32, you may need to run the command

`ifconfig sl0 128.253.154.32 pointopoint 128.253.154.2`

as `root`, after connecting with `dip`. The man pages for `ifconfig` will come in handy.

Note that SLIP device names used with the `ifconfig` and `route` commands are `sl0`, `sl1` and so on (as opposed to `eth0`, `eth1`, etc. for Ethernet devices).

In Section 5.3.4, below, we explain how to configure `dip` to connect to the SLIP server.

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