From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 08:49:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24076 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:49:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24059 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:49:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id IAA25306; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:48:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id IAA08822; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:21:21 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199802171621.IAA08822@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: insight needed on PLIP In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Feb 16, 98 11:02:16 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:21:21 -0800 (PST) Cc: kline@thought.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Doug White: > 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. > Hm. Can you be more specific here? What exactly should I put in both /etc/sysconfig files that would be a default routing? thanks much, gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message