From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 13 04:36:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA15899 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 04:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA15894 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 04:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-131 [207.14.72.131]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA02903; Tue, 13 May 1997 02:33:19 -0800 Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 03:26:44 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: jmcab cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: networking win95 & freebsd? In-Reply-To: <199705121417.JAA28067@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 May 1997, jmcab wrote: > Can you network a win95 box & a freebsd box? Is it as easy as installing > ethernet cardsa in both boxes & setting the win95 box to TCP/IP? Or do you > need any special packages for the freebsd box? > Thanks, > > Mike Cabaniss > jmcab@neosoft.com > www.lifetron.com/1014 why wouldn't you be able to? you ARE doing it most likely if you're uning 95 to dial an ISP ... although i heard reports some time back that 95 had a buggy TCP/IP/ethernet thingie ... but that was over a year ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------