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Re: Connecting two Linux boxes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 14:13:18 1998

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:56:25 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Tomas Buday wrote:
>
> >
> > configure your kernel with PLIP support, use ifconfig
> > and route to get networking up and running.
> >
> > > I want to connect two Linux boxes via the serial ports. I have
>
>   Er, PMFJI, but wouldn't SLIP be the appropriate protocol to use here?

PLIP is simpler and easier.  It even works with w31 and w95.

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Jan Carlson
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