From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 15: 9:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9755637B424 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-143-80.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.143.80]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA07966; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:08:37 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <021801c0cdd4$63c37a90$0400a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Mark Drayton" , References: <00c701c0cd82$75270d30$0400a8c0@oracle> <20010425153612.A4689@tethys.valhalla.net> Subject: Re: null modem . serial port networking Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:09:20 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm not sure what exactly you want to do, very simply .... network two systems. The reason for interest in null modem rather than ethernet is to effectively limit the bandwidth (presently 38400 for serial ports) rather than mess around with shaping (which probably needs a kernel compile & thats not practical in the immediate future). From reading the handbook the section on serial communication doesn't apply to my situation because it expressly excludes null modem connection via a multiport adaptor (one machine has 64 Cyclades ports) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message