Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:18:06 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Henry Hojnacki <heh@tricoprod.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laplink connection Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980121111154.5847F-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <s4c486c7.044@TRICOPROD.COM>
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Henry Hojnacki wrote: > 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! :-) You don't need to involve PPP unless you really want to. I doubt it will work though. The lp(4) driver already includes support for TCP/IP over the parallel port. I haven't done this in a while, but it goes something like this: On box 1: ifconfig lp0 inet 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 up On box 2: ifconfig lp0 inet 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 up ping 10.0.0.1 # Should work now. You may need to add 'netmask 0xff000000' to the above, but I don't believe it is necessary given that it is a point-to-point link. cheers, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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