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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:20:26 +0930 (CST)
From:      Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au>
To:        tcg@ime.net (Gary Chrysler), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Connecting to a Portmaster.
Message-ID:  <199610121550.BAA29551@al.imforei.apana.org.au>

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In article <199610121240.IAA23991@ime.net> you wrote:

: Got a Portmaster sitting about 15 feet from my 2.1.5-r box thats
: being fed from a 56 (soon to be T1) via a AdTron DSU.
: Currently it is a bit on the overloaded side (17 USR 28.8's) but
: since most of the users are IRC'ers it's not a problem yet.

: Can a ppp link just be setup via a serial line to the port master.
: Does the line have to be 2~3 flipped. (NULL Modem)

 Yup.  Null modem ppp would do the trick, but it would be a waste
 of a serial port (both on your machine and the portmaster)

 Why not just get a cheap network card and plug onto its ethernet.
 Save some load on the portmaster (honest) :)

 Peter

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