From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 21:40:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9680737B536 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA16586; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:40:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <000801bfefa9$24bf6de0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Duke Normandin" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Can not ping myself Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:40:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I'm interested in learning more about networking 2 machines with a >parallel cable, including the limitations in doing so, if any. Would either >of you gentleman be in a position to point me to an appropriate URL, >please? I'm assuming that that a parallel cable is used in lieue of NICs >and patch cable --- for a 2 machine network. Tia..... I haven't tried this myself, but check out 'man 4 lp'. I think it has all the info you'll need. Good luck! --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message