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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do you setup Plip? (I have lp0*) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 21:56:54 +0000 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <32C83AA6.41C67EA6@net-tel.co.uk> References: <5a8urg$k3k@herald.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33278 Andrew Verba wrote: > > I have two freebsd machines connected by a lap link cable. > > What do I need to do to throw packets out through this interface? Configure the interfaces as for any other interface, using ifconfig. See "man ifconfig" and "man 4 lp" for further info. If these are two totally isolated machines, somthing like ifconfig lp0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 on one machine, and ifconfig lp0 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 on the other would do the trick.