From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 23:34:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09744 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (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 GAA09627 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:34:31 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA04420; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:33:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, imdave@mcs.net Subject: Re: Parallel link In-Reply-To: <199804142115.OAA08208@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 Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > > Don't forget to add the route on the other side too. > > > Hmmm. I put the first pair of lines in my > P90 (10.0.0.1); the second two lines in my > 6x86. > > Do I need *both* on either machine?? Do I > need: > > ifconfig lp0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 -link0 > route add -net 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 > ifconfig lp0 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 -link0 ## in sage > route add -net 10.0.0.1 ## sage Amend to: route add -net 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 > in my P90 and something similar in the 6x86?? Make routes that point at each other, basically. > > Point to point Ethernet is just as fun, although it is faster. > > This is fun?! whoa.... > > :-) I've had my share of hair-removal sessions trying to get my formerly OS/2 laptop to talk to my FreeBSD box via ptp Ethernet. It didn't help that the OS/2 box would change frame types for TCP :( 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