Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 02:24:45 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking through Serial Message-ID: <20021103012445.GA11861@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0211021827530.18905-100000@shell.core.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0211021827530.18905-100000@shell.core.com>
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On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:49:28PM -0600, Steven Lake wrote: > HI all. I got a rather interesting question about networking. > I've got two machines that I'm running. One is win2k, the other is > FBD4.5, only one of which (the win2k machine) is on the network. The old > Freebsd machine won't take a nic, so I was wondering if I could cheat and > connect it to the win2k machine using a serial port? Would there be a way > to connect my freebsd box to the internet by connecting it to the win2k > box via a serial cable? FreeBSD handles such a setup just fine (using PPP or SLIP for running TCP/IP over the serial cable) so it all depends on if Win2K supports it. I suppose it does, but since I have never used Win2K I can't say for sure. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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