On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:49:28PM -0600, Steven Lake wrote: > HI all. I got a rather interesting question about networking. > I've got two machines that I'm running. One is win2k, the other is > FBD4.5, only one of which (the win2k machine) is on the network. The old > Freebsd machine won't take a nic, so I was wondering if I could cheat and > connect it to the win2k machine using a serial port? Would there be a way > to connect my freebsd box to the internet by connecting it to the win2k > box via a serial cable?
FreeBSD handles such a setup just fine (using PPP or SLIP for running TCP/IP over the serial cable) so it all depends on if Win2K supports it. I suppose it does, but since I have never used Win2K I can't say for sure. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
