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  From: Andreja Zivkovic <andy@zt.zivkotech.net.au>
  To  : Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 18:13:12 +0930 (CST)

Re: networking over a serial cable?

>  > I have a laptop with a broken net card, but I do have a 'null modem'
>  > cable. I was wondering if it's possible to network two computers with this
>  > cable?
> 
> SLIP or PPP will do the job nicely (albeit slowly).

Hi,

that's good news :) It'll probably only be used to download blocks for the
distributed.net client, so the speed doesn't really matter.

I was wondering if there's any documentation that I could look at to help?
I've been looking around, but havn't had any luck :(

thanks,
Andy

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