On 09-Nov-96 John Rulnick wrote: >>>>>>> " " == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Now I've got a PPP link between my laptop and desktop, so I would like >to run dselect, etc., accessing file systems on the desktop as if they >were local to the laptop -- I assume NFS is the thing. I will plow >forward into these uncharted waters now, but if anyone would care to >offer NFS advice, I'm all ears (or is it eyes?)... > Yes, NFS mount the disks and CD etc, that should be the ticket. However, there really was no need to do PPP connect between them. I use SLIP to do the very same thing here. You'll find slattach far easier, and it will likely be a bit better on thruput. There is nothing truly magic about PPP but one thing it does do is that it has more overhead per frame. For local machines connected by a cable, SLIP is easier and probably better. I say probably because as long as both PPP implementations support all the options, it really doesn't matter, and it would be essentially the same as SLIP. The overhead is essentially a don't care.
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