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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!199.104.80.6!mars.hyperk.com!NewsWatcher!user From: cmott@srv.net (Charles Mott) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Connecting a MAC to a BSD box Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 02:04:28 -0700 Organization: SRVNet Lines: 38 Message-ID: <cmott-1505970204290001@192.168.0.5> References: <337AC08E.167EB0E7@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ras563.srv.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40949 In article <337AC08E.167EB0E7@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>, David Henshaw <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > There was recently a series of articles dealing with connecting a MAC to > a FreeBSD machine. It was mentioned that Columbia Appletalk be used. > > I'd actually like to try something similar. > 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. Just get NCSA Telnet (freeware), and you can telnet to the FreeBSD box. > > 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 ? You need an ethernet card for the Mac. The link layer can carry TCP/IP traffic. Depending on which machine and MacOS version you have, there will either be the old-style MacTCP interface, or the newer OpenTransport (OT) interface. If you go to OT, you can try out the famous "ping of death" on your Macintosh -- always good a few laughs. If you are desperate, and don't have an ethernet card for your Mac, you can get a serial interface cable and a null modem and use PPP. (I have also had to do this when I was in a bind once.) Be prepared for a learning experience. The Wintel and even more so the Mac world isolate users from details of their machines, and details are what you have to be up on to get FreeBSD going for the first time. -- C. Mott