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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP/IP config
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 20:52:26 +0000
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hmmm wrote:
> 
> it seems as though TCP/IP is not in the hanbook at this time, and
> i'm too stupid to find much of value in the man pages.  does anyone
> have any info on how to get TCP/IP going on in a LAN ?
> 
> nothing fancy, i just want to get to NE2000's chattin' ...

I'm not sure I understand your problem. FreeBSD does all of its network
communications by TCP/IP (or a compatible protocol, such as UDP). If you
configure each machine appropriately, assigning each its IP address,
they'll be able to contact each other.
-- 
Ken

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