1.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)slattach.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 04/01/94 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt SLATTACH 8 10.Os BSD 4.3 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm slattach 13.Nd attach serial lines as network interfaces 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm Slattach 16.Ar ttyname Op Ar baudrate 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18.Nm Slattach 19is used to assign a tty line to a network interface, 20and to define the network source and destination addresses. 21The following operands are supported by 22.Nm slattach : 23.Bl -tag -width Ar 24.It Ar ttyname 25Specifies the name of the tty device. 26.Ar Ttyname 27should be a string of the form 28.Ql ttyXX , 29or 30.Ql /dev/ttyXX . 31.It Ar baudrate 32Specifies the speed of the connection. If not specified, the 33default of 9600 is used. 34.El 35.Pp 36Only the super-user may attach a network interface. 37.Pp 38To detach the interface, use 39.Dq Li ifconfig interface-name down 40after killing off the 41.Nm slattach 42process. 43.Ar Interface-name 44is the name that is shown by 45.Xr netstat 1 46.Sh EXAMPLES 47.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 48slattach ttyh8 49slattach /dev/tty01 4800 50.Ed 51.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 52Messages indicating the specified interface does not exit, the 53requested address is unknown, the user is not privileged and 54tried to alter an interface's configuration. 55.Sh SEE ALSO 56.Xr netstat 1 , 57.Xr netintro 4 , 58.Xr ifconfig 8 , 59.Xr rc 8 60.Sh HISTORY 61The 62.Nm 63command appeared in 64.Bx 4.3 . 65