From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 12:54: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.brwn.org (intgw1.brwn.org [196.28.127.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E3937BF9B for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 12:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willem@brwn.org) Received: from brwn.org (grumpy.brwn.org [192.168.1.10]) by snoopy.brwn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0AFF3ACA for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 21:53:28 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <39259BB8.C11253DB@brwn.org> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:53:28 +0200 From: Willem Brown Organization: Brwn.ORG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Connecting two FreeBSD machines Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Apart from the "laplink" cable that you need. have a look at the man page for the plip driver, man plip. You can either use /stand/sysinstall to configure the lp0 interface or do it manually. on the desktop, ifconfig lp0 desktop_ip laptop_ip and on the laptop, ifconfig lp0 laptop_ip desktop_ip I'm not sure if you have to add any routes or if it is done dynamically. HTH Regards Willem Brown -- |--------------LINUX & *BSD, the CHOICE is yours--------------| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message