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From: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Mini-Network ?'s
Date: 6 Feb 1997 03:21:37 GMT
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For those of you that have been following this newsgroup you might recognize 
my name as a regular with a ton of newbie questions since Sept '96.  First I
want to say thanks to everyone who has helped me, but I have more questions.

I recently purchased 2 inexpensive ethernet cards.  I would like to hook up
my FBSD box to a Winbloze95 box.  The PCI card I purchased for the FBSD box
is an SMC8432BT (based on the DEC 21040 chip, recognized by the de0 drvier).
The card for the Winbloze95 box is a generic NE2000 compliant ISA ethernet
card (recognized by Winbloze95)

I've quickly searched through the on-line handbook (both local & at FBSD.org)
for info on how to get these 2 boxes to 'talk' to each other.  Eventually I'd
like to access the internet from the Winbloze95 box through the FBSD box
which is running pppd on a faster modem than installed in the '95 box.  What's
the best, easiest way to configure these boxes?  Is Samba the least difficult
to set up and do the job I want it to do?  If so, does anyone have some sample
config file they could email me?

Also, where can I find the info needed to correctly setup the Winbloze95 box?

Here's the section of dmesg identifing the card (am I correct in assuming FBSD
likes/can talk/use this card?):

de0 <Digital 21040 Ethernet> rev 35 int a irq 11 on pci0:14
de0: SMC 8432BT 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3
de0: address 00:00:c0:5d:65:0e
de0: enabling BNC/AUI port

Thanks again for your help.

-- 
Burton Sampley
Email: bsampley@best.com | home page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley