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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.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se


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