On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Jens Thordarson wrote:

> Could anyone tell me how to do the following....
> 
> I got a macos computer and a netBSD box.....what I'd like to do is
> connecting those two together, using a serial cable (printer port to
> printer port :) (See below)...then I'd like to be able to dial up on a PPP
> connection on the NetBSD and use the internet on both my NetBSD box and the
> macos computer (which is using Open Tpt, btw)...is this possible? or do I
> have to have ethernet?
> 
>    LC475-macos
>         |
>         |
>         |<-----Serial cable
>         |
>         |
>    LCIII-NetBSD
>         |
>         |
>         |
>       Modem
> 
> 

It is possible, but under all serial communications it will be VERY slow,
and possibly very annoying.  I used TIS's Firewall Toolkit at home, to do
proxy serving.  The Netbsd box was dialed up to a 28.8 PPP connection, and
the other machines on my net (ethernet) proxied through the BSD box.  It
was decently fast.  Serially, you would do ppp from mac to bsd, and ppp
from bsd to The Net.  The difficulty here comes in with your provider.
They probably don't give you but one IP per dialup, so you'd have to do ip
masquerading, which is beyond the scope of this email.  

FWTK can be found at www.tis.com.  It's neat, and free.  At least I got it
for free from there.



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