Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 17:47:56 -0500 From: Paul Dlug <paul@nerdlabs.com> To: freebsd-admin@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: SLIP/PPP over direct serial link Message-ID: <3896111C.A329E470@nerdlabs.com>
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--------------0CE0982B457802AFDF6EBA27 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Perhaps someone can help me out with this one, I've been playing with it since early this morning without much progress. Here is my problem: I have two laptops, one running linux, one running freebsd. My friend has succeeded in totally messing up the freebsd laptop and would like me to reinstall freebsd "properly" on it. So as to avoid losing his data I'd like to copy it over to the other linux laptop, the fbsd laptop doesn't have an ethernet card so I thought a serial link might be the best option. I have a nice rs232 cable setup between them and the freebsd machine setup to recieve incoming slip connections (freebsd's slip server seemed eaiser to work with than linux). I cannot figure out how to establish a link between the two...both have docs that talk about doing this over a modem, but over a direct cable? Can this be done? if so..what am I missing?? -- Paul Dlug Unix/Web Programmer paul@nerdlabs.com --------------0CE0982B457802AFDF6EBA27 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Perhaps someone can help me out with this one, I've been playing with it since early this morning without much progress. Here is my problem: I have two laptops, one running linux, one running freebsd. My friend has succeeded in totally messing up the freebsd laptop and would like me to reinstall freebsd "properly" on it. So as to avoid losing his data I'd like to copy it over to the other linux laptop, the fbsd laptop doesn't have an ethernet card so I thought a serial link might be the best option. I have a nice rs232 cable setup between them and the freebsd machine setup to recieve incoming slip connections (freebsd's slip server seemed eaiser to work with than linux). I cannot figure out how to establish a link between the two...both have docs that talk about doing this over a modem, but over a direct cable? Can this be done? if so..what am I missing?? <br> <pre>-- Paul Dlug Unix/Web Programmer paul@nerdlabs.com</pre> </html> --------------0CE0982B457802AFDF6EBA27-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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