The following reply was made to PR bin/33923; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:19:49 -0400

 On Jul 6,  3:40pm, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
 
 | The following reply was made to PR bin/33923; it has been noted by GNATS.
 | 
 | From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
 | To: christos@zoulas.com
 | Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
 | 	tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
 | Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
 | Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:39:06 +0900
 | 
 |  christos@zoulas.com wrote:
 |  
 |  > | >  | slattach: TIOCSETD: Device not configured
 |  > | >  ifconfig sl0 create?
 |  > | Umm, you are right.
 |  > | I'll note about it sl(4) and slattach(8) man pages...
 |  > 
 |  > The question is: Should we just document this as you suggest, or should
 |  > we make the creation/deletion automatic in slattach?
 |  
 |  Well, I'd prefer the latter, but I can do only the former
 |  because I don't have a good idea how to modify slattach
 |  to create interfaces automatically. Currently it doesn't
 |  take an interface name arg.
 
 Right, unlike pppd I don't think that slattach has a way to tell bind to
 slX, or even find what you are bound. So let's fix the man page, for now.
 
 christos