From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 15:10:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D4837B409 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.holy.cow (sdn-ar-004dcwashP276.dialsprint.net [206.133.15.206]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA15521 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AC5B450BAA; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:10:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:10:40 -0400 From: parv To: f-q Subject: any device to share one dial up connection among old fashioned modems? Message-ID: <20011002181040.A11747@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: f-q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi people, is there any hub/switch/etc. which can be used to share single (phone) dial up connection among more than one old fashioned modems, most possible w/o things ethernet? here are some more details: - computer A fitted w/ linksys pcmlm56 card (ethernet doesn't work) and windows me & freebsd 4.4 - computer B has some sort of modem, most possibly software based and windows (98|me) - connection to outside world happens via earthlink dial up connection - running a computer all the time isn't an option it's possible to add a working ethernet card to A on my own expense, but not to B as that's owned by my father and he will be highly reluctant to spend anything on ethernet connectivity since "he can use whatever modem he has just fine". thanks in advance. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message