Re: Null modem connection

1998-09-11 Thread Michele Bini
> Dear Debian users, > how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so that I > can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base system installed) > to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) using the FTP or the NFS > access methods? ppp / slip links are very slow. If you

Re: Null modem connection

1998-09-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
Andreas Nolda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so |> that I can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base |> system installed) to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) |> using the FTP or the NFS access methods? |>

Re: Null modem connection

1998-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
See section 6.27.7 of the NET-3-HOWTO for some helpful information. I did this before I installed ethernet by using slattach + ifconfig to set up the connection. With 16550A UARTs I was able to get a 115.2 kbaud serial speed. slattach is in the netbase package and I don't recall if that is in th

Null modem connection

1998-09-10 Thread Andreas Nolda
Dear Debian users, how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so that I can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base system installed) to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) using the FTP or the NFS access methods? Andreas Nolda

Compression over null-modem connection (Was Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

1998-01-27 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One small point. You can get compression from a modem but it is very > difficult to get compression over a piece of wire. :-) I believe compression from a modem is actually software compression implemented by the modem's ROM, while BSD compressio