Mark Andres wrote:

> You will probably need 2 cables, unless you can find one that matches your
> needs perfectly.  Here is how I do it in 2 cables.
> 
> 1) Standard Macintosh modem cable.  This is probably going to be 9-pin
> (Mac style) male to 25-pin (PC-style) male.
> 
> 2) A null modem (or cross) cable which is 25-pin (PC-style) female to
> whatever connector will connect to the serial port (COMM port) on your PC.

Yep, that worked for me. I was also able to use a straight modem cable
on both
machines with a gender-changer/null-modem-crossover dongle in the
middle.

This worked for Linux-Mac, but  I don't see why it couldn't work for
NetBSD to
Mac:

I set up the PC to run pppd on the second serial with the -passive and
-login
options set. I also specified an arbitrary IP address for each machine -
in the
TCP control  panel on the Mac and on the pppd command line on the PC.

Then from the mac end I used FreePPP (MacPPP/OT-PPP are fine) to connect
'direct' via the modem port with the terminal checkbox set. I logged in
using
a known Linux user/password and the mchines did the rest.

I was able to ftp to/from the mac. Then I got a copy of ftpd and others
from
the UMICH archives for the mac and got full TCP/IP service in both
directions.


Hope this helps.

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