everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date

[Björn König]

Hello,

thanks a lot for your hints. The null-modem cable connection is working now. Anyway, it was surprisingly easy, but I'm totally inexperienced and the neglected manpages and handbook discouraged me, because I didn't touch serial ports since a decade ;-) Finally someone points me at [1].

Regards Björn

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-net-practice.html#chap-net-practice-p2p-via-serial