On Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:22:23 -0700,
Tom Tarka x3212 <tommy@boulder.vni.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, anyone know about doing this between a freeBSD Box or
> a Linux Box (like a P75 or P133) and a Mac using a printer cable? I would
> think that it would be the same basic process, but for some reason I always 
> thought I would need a gender switcher instead of my plain old DIN9->25 serial 
> cable.

What I used to do before I got Ethernet cards for my SE/30 and a
Toshiba T3400 is connect them with a Mac modem cable and a hand-made
null modem adapter.  That worked rather well.

> > In /etc/hosts, add two entries like:
> > 10.0.0.1	mybox-backdoor
> > 10.0.0.2	macosbox
> 
> and so the IP address would become (if the NetBSD box were foo.bar.com)
> 	macosbox.bar.com and mybox-backdoor.bar.com
> 			?

No, the IP addresses are 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.1, respectively.  The
strings you mentioned above are the fully-qualified domain names, or
FQDNs.

Ken