Subject: Re: Joke time (Windows95)
To: Mike Sienicki <mike@cpdist.com>
From: chris_gray <ep71@bcs.org.uk>
List: port-atari
Date: 11/23/1998 13:09:01
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Mike Sienicki wrote:
> Hi NetBSD/Atari,
>
> I have tried just about everything I could think of to get the Network up
> and running on NetBSD V1.3H. I'm trying to use the TT as a server and
> Telnet into it using Direct Cable Connection on Windows95 over a serial
> data link. I am using the /dev/mdm02 port at 19200 and setup TCP/IP
> protocol on the PC. The program I used to attempt this was "pppd". Has
> anyone had any success doing this very same thing? I have read what I
> could find from the FAQ on network setup, but, here again I'm not very good
> when it comes to UNIX.
>
IIRC Direct Cable Connection doesn't use ppp - it's an MS-specific thing
for connecting Windoze machines together. Getting W95 to speak PPP over
a null-modem cable requires some special gymnastics on the W95 side: the
simplest solution would probably be to replace W95 with NetBSD, otherwise
seek advice in a W95 forum or search the archives of comp.protocols.ppp.
--
Chris Gray chris_gray@bcs.org.uk