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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!thor.atcon.com!eru.mt.luth.se!newsfeed2.luth.se!news.luth.se!erix.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!news From: Kent Boortz <kent@erlang.ericsson.se> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Connecting a MAC to a BSD box Date: 15 May 1997 13:01:45 +0200 Organization: Ericsson Software Technology AB, Erlang Systems Lines: 34 Message-ID: <d2lo5hyp5y.fsf@erlang.ericsson.se> References: <337AC08E.167EB0E7@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: townsend.ericsson.se X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40924 > What I'd like to do is use a MAC as a terminal to access the FreeBSD > box, which also is running mail and WWW servers. > > The BSD box will contain a NE2000 compatible card. > What hardware do I require to connect the MAC to the BSD box so that I > can establish a PPP (TCP/IP) link ? I have a Mac PowerBook Duo with a docking station that has an Ethernet card. The card in the PC and the Mac has connectors for 10BaseT. Usually you connect both cards with patch cables to a "hub" but with only two equipments you can connect them directly with a "cross over" cable. This is a cable with a totally different wiring than ordinary patch cables. No problem with software. You just configure the Mac in the TCP/IP control panel for direct Ethernet. Now you can run telnet to get a terminal, WWW, FTP and all other Internet applications. You need CAP or netatalk only if you want to share printers or want the FreeBSD machine to be an AppleTalk server. I know netatalk also let the FreeBSD box print out on printers connected to the Mac's LocalTalk port. Even more fun, if you have a modem to your PC that you use for connecting with PPP to an ISP then you can configure so that the Mac can reach the Internet too trough the sane connection at the same time. But that is a longer story. But I may have missunderstood your question. Do you want to do a PPP connection from the Mac serial port to the PC serial port to save to cost of buying an Ethernet card? /kgb