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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 16:45:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Connecting two FreeBSD machines
Message-ID:  <20000519204434.FCVZ22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0005191405200.8332-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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On 19-May-00 Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> 
> I have a desktop FreeBSD box and a laptop FreeBSD box.  Both running
> FreeBSD 4.0-release.  I want to connect them with a parallel cable to
> transfer files between them. I assume that the parallel cable is the one
> used to connect a PC to a parallel printer. Can someone tell me how to do
> this step by step?

You can run TCP/IP over this, but you need a special cable, the equivalent
of a null modem cable, but for printer instead of for serial.

> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> -Zhihui

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