On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Izatt, Wayne wrote:
> I have an ancient laptop running kernel 1.2.13 which I'd like to network
> (occaisionally) via its serial port to my desktop 2.0.36 machine. There is
> no possibility of installing a NIC on the laptop. The desktop box will, in a
> few days time, have a cable connection to the net, and I plan to create a
> small IP-masq'ed net at home with one or two other machines.
>
> Has anyone gone through the process of connecting machines via a null modem
> cable, and is PPP my best option?
You'd better try plip if you have a parallel port.
modprobe plip; ifconfig plip0 ...... ; route...
Bye
Carlos Barros.
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