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 -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!
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