From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 3 09:23:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA21180 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 09:23:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from millennium.net (mrvid.demon.co.uk [194.222.140.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA21163 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 09:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@mrvid.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by millennium.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA04241; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 13:31:10 GMT Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 13:29:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Lists X-Sender: lists@millennium.net To: Doug White cc: Mark Ibell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win95 <-> FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Now that I have IP aliasing (ppp -alias option) working under > > FreeBSD, I would like to connect a Win95 box to a FreeBSD box > > using a laplink cable. This idea prompts a couple of questions: > > (1) Does anybody know whether Win95 supports TCP/IP over the > > parallel port? If so, how is it done? > Unless someone writes a PLIP driver for WIn95, I doubt it's Direct cable > Connection stuff will work. I've actually managed this from a Win95 box running Winsock (32-bit) to a Linux box (running pppd) and it worked fine. I presume the same thing would work with BSD. L8rz KrOnUs