Re: accessing files over serial cable?
On 09-Nov-96 John Rulnick wrote:
>>>>>>> " " == Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> writes:
>
>Now I've got a PPP link between my laptop and desktop, so I would like
>to run dselect, etc., accessing file systems on the desktop as if they
>were local to the laptop -- I assume NFS is the thing. I will plow
>forward into these uncharted waters now, but if anyone would care to
>offer NFS advice, I'm all ears (or is it eyes?)...
>
Yes, NFS mount the disks and CD etc, that should be the ticket. However,
there really was no need to do PPP connect between them. I use SLIP to
do the very same thing here. You'll find slattach far easier, and it will
likely be a bit better on thruput. There is nothing truly magic about PPP
but one thing it does do is that it has more overhead per frame. For local
machines connected by a cable, SLIP is easier and probably better. I say
probably because as long as both PPP implementations support all the options,
it really doesn't matter, and it would be essentially the same as SLIP. The
overhead is essentially a don't care.
Paul
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