From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 12:19:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFECF14CC1 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:19:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 6097 invoked by uid 374); 12 Nov 1999 20:19:32 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:19:32 +0200 From: Barry Irwin To: Ronald 'Ko' Klop Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modemsharing with win95/win98 Message-ID: <19991112221932.K57266@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl on Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 02:53:36PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 1999-11-12 (14:53), Ronald 'Ko' Klop wrote: > Hello, > > Is there an application to share a modem with more machines via a network? > I don't mean sharing an internetconnection (I already use nat via my > cable), but sharing the serial port of a FreeBSD machine with another > win95/98 computer. not 100% sure about FBSD, but have a look at the linux modem sahring mini-HOWTO. The example they use there is just a little perl script, so it should work fine on freebsd. Barry -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry Irwin IRC: balin@zanet (#linux) bvi@moria.org http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~bvi Whois BI414 - PMPN8EZ - http://moria.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message