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Re: Networking with serial cable

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 9 05:03:59 1998

Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 05:03:05 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Russell Foster wrote:

> Hi all,
>   I want to try a little experiment at home between a linux box and a
> Windows box (98/NT). What I want to do is something like Direct cable
> connection under Windows 98 between A windows and Linux box. Is this
> possible? I read the serial-HOWTO but couldn't find anything in there.
> Please help.

Direct cable connection under W95 does NOT use tcp/ip.  It uses either
IPX or NetBUI only.  I don't know about W98, but if it's the same, you
are going to have to work at it.

>
>
>   TIA  Rusty
>
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