From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 17:24:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C2437B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:24:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamberg.it.uu.se (hamberg.it.uu.se [130.238.9.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E415443E7B for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:24:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@csd.uu.se) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by hamberg.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA13510; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 02:24:46 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 02:24:45 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Steven Lake Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking through Serial Message-ID: <20021103012445.GA11861@student.uu.se> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message