From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 23:04:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17526 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:04:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17450 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA11371; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:02:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:02:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gary Kline cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: insight needed on PLIP In-Reply-To: <199802162258.OAA02516@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > dmesg reports:: > > lp0: TCP/IP capable interface > > Pretty sure it would say the same thing on my new platform... Check. > In /etc/config, I added lp0 to the list of network_interfaces:: > > network_interfaces="lo0 ep0 tun0 lp0" > > And the line ((indicated by lp(4) )): > > ifconfig lp0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.2 -link0 Looks good, just swap the IPs for the other end. > How close is this configuration to being correct for my > FBSD to FBSD lp link?? Last thing you will need is a default route pointing to the other end of the link and you should be set. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message