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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to use lp0? Date: 24 Jan 1995 05:17:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3g22hg$jsu@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <gsq0fU0@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <gsq0fU0@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote: >I tried hooking two FreeBSD machines up together with a 25 pin straight >cable, but neither would talk to the other, and both started giving >'too many errors, downing interface' or some such. What sort of cable >do you have to make to get this to work (and might someone have done >well to put this in the man page :-) )? A standard lap-link cable should do the job. Poul? Jordan