>This weekend I did the upgrade to 1.0 (from 0.9).
>
>Under 0.9, to get SLIP up and running, it was sufficient to:
>
>slattach tty00
>ifconfig sl0 192.168.201.1 broadcast 192.168.201.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
>route add -host 192.168.201.2 -interface 192.168.201.1

I'm not sure what you're all trying to ping, but maybe the route command should
set the default route?  something like:

route add default 192.168.201.1 1

--Ken