From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 20 20:53:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11287 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (w2xo.pgh.pa.us [206.210.70.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11276 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:53:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: (from durham@localhost) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00753; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:51:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from durham) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:51:58 -0500 (EST) Organization: Dis- From: Jim Durham To: Henry Hojnacki Subject: RE: Laplink connection Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 20-Jan-98 Henry Hojnacki wrote: > Greetings! > > I have been investigating using a laplink cable to connect two of my PC > systems, both running > FreeBSD-2.1. I have searched through man of the docs and man pages, and > still have not got > a clue if this is even possible. It is mentioned in the install README that > it can be done. > > If you have a tcp/ip capable parallel port, it will say so during the boot messages. IE; lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface The network device is therefore called "lp0:", as opposed to the printer device, which is "lpt0". You need to set it up as any other network device. ifconfig lp0 address destination netmask,, etc.... It works just fine.. I do this between my laptop and my desktop. If you turn on gatewaying on a machine connected to the net and do your routing correctly, you can even have the "laplinked" machine "on the net". regards, Jim Durham Jim Durham