Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:25:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: imdave@mcs.net Subject: Re: Parallel link Message-ID: <19980415112547.P1870@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199804141659.JAA06076@tao.thought.org>; from Gary Kline on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 09:59:42AM -0700 References: <199804141659.JAA06076@tao.thought.org>
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On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 9:59:42 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > > This is directed toward Dave Bodenstab or Doug White, primarily; > but if anyone else on the list has any insight, I'd be much > obliged to hear back. > > I've finally got my two FBSD boxes configured with a Laplink > cable on /dev/lpt1. In /etc/sysconfig (P90//2.2.0-R) is: > > ifconfig lp0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 -link0 > > # estalish the routing necessary for the two to talk; the ``add -net'' > # because of my existing default networking with tera.tera.com. > route add -net 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 > > And in /etc/rc.conf (6x86//2.2.5) > is: > > ifconfig lp0 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 -link0 ## in sage > route add -net 10.0.0.1 ## sage When testing things, don't use /etc/rc.conf. Otherwise you need to reboot every time you change anything. Your tools are ifconfig and netstat--see "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm) for techniques. At this stage, it would be good to see the output from 'ifconfig -a' and 'netstat -rn' on both machines. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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