Major problem with Speakup.

[Brian Borowski]

You could also use plip with the appropriate parallel cable between the
machines, and the speed would be much better than serial; an old dos
interlink cable would do, I think.

Brian Borowski



On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > How do you give a machine access to stuff like
> > ip masq. and samba via a serial cable?
> > I've got a system here that would benefit from such a connection,
> > but I thought all of that was possible
> > only over ethernet.
>
> Actually, this is where the superiority of linux over a certain popular OS
> comes into play. ipmasq, samba and other tools work the same over any
> network connection. It matters not if you use serial, ethernet, token
> ring, or fddi.
>
> If I was setting up the serial connection I would probably look to make it
> simple and setup ppp or slip. Both are simply designed around a serial
> connection though typically employ a modem. But the modem isn't needed. If
> you have one machine connected and a free serial port, you should be able
> to setup another using that serial port pretty easily. In fact, I checked
> and the PPP howto covers setting it up over a null modem cable.
>
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