From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 12:55:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA16116 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA16108 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA00243; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:54:50 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:54:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Administrator cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: IP over parrallel port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Administrator wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Doug White wrote: > > > 3) For media, select 'ftp' (????) and select 'lp0' as the network > > device. You'll have to have the install info set up in an ftp server (or > > other network access) on the server machine. > > So to install by parrallel the distribution must be on the machine your > connecting to? I cant hook the other machine up and tell it to install > from ftp4.au.freebsd.org? Or the machine it's connected to must be set up as a gateway. > It occurs to me that using lpt0 wouldnt be any different to adding say ed1 > and I can do all the same things using ifconfig? If this is the case then > I can probably work it out from the man pages. If this is the case then I > can answer the above question myself :-) That is my assumption. > > Sorry for the assumptions but I think this is fairly accurate. > > Instructions may be in the Handbook or in sysinstall's help system. > > The only help I could find in either of these places was talkin about PPP > over serial lines and then said if you can you might like to install over > parallel because you can get ~50K/s. That was all it said about parrallel. > > If there is help somewhere and I missed it pointeers would be gratefully > received. > I might try and keep a log of how I did it if I get it working and put it > on the web somewhere in case other people try this...perhaps they do but > its not really as hard as it looks. Did you try poking around in the sysinstall help files and the mail archives on www.freebsd.org? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major