From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 13:44:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C531637B5FA for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000519204434.FCVZ22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:44:34 -0700 Content-Length: 720 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:45:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Zhihui Zhang Subject: RE: Connecting two FreeBSD machines Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20000519204434.FCVZ22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message