From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 22:48:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08841 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:48:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08836 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:48:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id WAA25215; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id WAA02021; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:46:45 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199802150646.WAA02021@tao.thought.org> Subject: insight needed on PLIP To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:46:45 -0800 (PST) Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm finally in the process of building my ~10Gig 6x86 box. A few months late, but no big deal... To avoid buying a second modem, and until I am network-savvy enough, I want to set up a parallel cable link between the two boxes. I don't care if it is slow for the time being. 50k/sec is plenty fast to allow rlogin and sharing of my ppp link to the Real world. dmesg finds the following on both platforms: lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa What's next? What lines do I put into the configuration files in /etc? And then, what kind of cable do I plug between lpt0 and lpt0? Since my new 6x86 platform is not part of the larger net, can I assign my local IP designation? (Like 127.0.0.02) I would be much obliged for any detailed help here, so thanks in advance! gary kline -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message