From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 20 08:09:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13207 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:09:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from TRICOPROD.COM (smtp.tricoprod.com [38.161.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA13198 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from heh@TRICOPROD.COM) Received: from TRICOPROD-Message_Server by TRICOPROD.COM with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 11:13:11 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 11:12:43 -0500 From: "Henry Hojnacki" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Laplink connection Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA13199 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Greetings! I have been investigating using a laplink cable to connect two of my PC systems, both running FreeBSD-2.1. I have searched through man of the docs and man pages, and still have not got a clue if this is even possible. It is mentioned in the install README that it can be done. The closest guess I have is to use pppd, with the device as /dev/lp0 or similar. The documentation seems to imply that a serial line is required though. Can you please point me in the correct direction on where to look for how to do this? If you have to tell me outright how to do it, OK, but that takes some of the fun out of it! :-) Thank you for any help you can provide! |-|-| Henry Hojnacki Trico Technology Center Voice: 248 371 8384 Fax: 248 371 8300 heh@tricoprod.com