From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 7:51:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.simrad.no (mail.simrad.no [193.69.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0976B37B41B; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 07:51:26 -0800 (PST) To: fxn@isoco.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to connect two PCs occasionally MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Build M11_11052001 Beta 4 November 05, 2001 Message-ID: From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 07:51:31 -0800 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on S_INET01/S_EXT(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 28.03.2002 16:51:27, Serialize complete at 28.03.2002 16:51:27 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 03/28/2002 07:40:22 AM: > At home I have a desktop and a laptop, both running FreeBSD 4.x. > > Occassionally I would like to connect them to pass files. What would you > recommend to accomplish it without having a LAN? I would like to be able > to plug them easily, pass some data, and just unplug them, if there is > such a thing. > > -- fxn If both machines have a network card, then you should be able to use a cross-over cable. Just assign them ip addresses something like 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0 and 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 and they should be talking to each other. You'll need to use nfs, or set up one as a ftp server and the other a client. FTPd is installed, but not enabled, by default. Maybe others will have more ideas, or know how to use the serial ports and a null modem cable (I don't). Regards, -- Chip W www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message