From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 5:35: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-1.smartworld.net (mrs-1-fix.smartworld.net [216.70.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD9037B92E for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 05:35:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnormandin@freewwweb.com) Received: from odie (1Cust110.tnt3.calgary.ab.da.uu.net [64.10.177.110]) by mrs-1.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA76757; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:35:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000401bfefeb$d2a2c960$6eb10a40@odie> From: "Duke Normandin" To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Can not ping myself Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:37:33 -0600 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 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, July 16, 2000 10:40 PM Dan O'Connor wrote: >>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 Thanks bud ...... -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message