On Friday 05 January 2007 11:14, Andrew Ball wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm preparing to move up to a NetBSD 3.1 machine.  As a
> temporary measure, I have connected the new machine to my
> existing one via a serial cable and (with help! :-) built
> a SLIP connection between them...
>
> ,--------------,         ,--------------,
>
> | tinman       |         | almond       |
> | ~~~~~~       |         | ~~~~~~       |
> | 192.168.0.129|--rs232--|192.168.0.128 |
> |
> |              |         | 192.168.0.254|--10baseT--> to NAT
>
> `--------------'         `--------------'            gateway
>
>       ...my existing machine, almond, has a 10baseT card and
> is connected to the Internet via a (non-NetBSD) NAT gateway.
>
> What is the cleanest, simplest way to let tinman share
> almond's Internet connectivity? I would like to fetch pkgsrc
> and start building a comfortable place to live.  I looked in
> the NetBSD Guide, but it seemed to point towards NAT on
> almond, which feels like overkill.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?

You could set up VLAN between them and use the IP of almond's VLAN end as 
tinman's default gw.