From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 05:24:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA14971 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 05:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn048-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA14964 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 05:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (frankd@localhost) by Kryten.nina.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA11639; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 08:22:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Kryten.nina.com: frankd owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 08:22:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to connect 2 FBSD boxen 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 Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote: > > I found this message, too. It sounded too simple to work but I tried it > > and it doesn't. > > What doesn't work about it? I can't ping, login, rlogin or ftp. I have tried from both sides. > Both machines must be config'd. > > > > [ On your FreeBSD desktop box ] > > > # ifconfig lp0 10.5.5.1 10.5.5.2 > > > > > > [ On your FreeBSD laptop ] > > > # ifconfig lp0 10.5.5.2 10.5.5.1 > > > # ping 10.5.5.1 Done that. > > Both machines display this message during boot. > > THen it should work. :-/ > > These are two FreeBSD boxes, right? Yep. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Frank -- Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a draft dodger sleeps in the White House.