From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 01:01:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA15499 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 01:01:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA15490 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 01:00:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA03570; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:00:19 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA11749; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:08:19 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199611090908.KAA11749@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Any PPP-alike program to connect FreeBSD and Win95 through ethernet cables? In-Reply-To: from Nick Liu at "Nov 8, 96 10:14:15 am" To: nickliu@uniqsite.com (Nick Liu) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:08:19 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, nickliu@uniqsite.com Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The subject line says it all. Why don't you use TCP/IP over the ethernet which is built into Win95? Why does it have to be ppp (which is a point-to-point protocol for serial interfaces) ? > > Please cc me. > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de