Cool. Thanks, I'll check it out. Personaly, I've always thought that serial transfer abilities of the other popular os were trash. Greg On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:05:10AM -0500, Kirk Wood wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > How do you give a machine access to stuff like > > ip masq. and samba via a serial cable? > > I've got a system here that would benefit from such a connection, > > but I thought all of that was possible > > only over ethernet. > > Actually, this is where the superiority of linux over a certain popular OS > comes into play. ipmasq, samba and other tools work the same over any > network connection. It matters not if you use serial, ethernet, token > ring, or fddi. > > If I was setting up the serial connection I would probably look to make it > simple and setup ppp or slip. Both are simply designed around a serial > connection though typically employ a modem. But the modem isn't needed. If > you have one machine connected and a free serial port, you should be able > to setup another using that serial port pretty easily. In fact, I checked > and the PPP howto covers setting it up over a null modem cable. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open. > If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
