[geeks] Q: NetScreen Firewall/VPN appliance

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Doug McLaren <dougmc at frenzied.us>
>Date: 2007/05/23 Wed AM 10:44:59 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Q: NetScreen Firewall/VPN appliance

>On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:06:32PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>| I'll give it a shot - I picked up a neat null modem cable on a
>| closeout shelf recently, and I've wanted to try it out - it has 9 and
>| 25 pin connectors on each end, and from one end to the other is
>| crossed over...
>
>Sounds like a laplink cable.

Well, this was in the Mfg. package, referred to as a null modem serial cable, with 9 and 25 pin heads on each end...
 
>Depending on the exact version, laplink could come with a parallel to
>parallel cable and/or a serial cable.  The serial cable was a null
>modem cable, and sometimes had both 9 and 25 pin connectors.

I've not seen that cable, but it sounds familiar...

>The parallel cable was good for moving files between PCs at a
>reasonable clip (compared to the serial port, anyways -- about 250
>KB/s if I remember right) either with laplink or similar things or
>PLIP (on Linux) and you didn't even need ethernet, but the serial
>cables were pretty much universal null modems.  All you need is a few
>gender changers, and you could connect anything to anything.
>
>And best of all, they show up at garages sales occasionally.

Thanks,

Lionel