From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 12:59: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.thebiz.net (mx1.thebiz.net [216.238.0.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9FA937B417 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:58:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1599 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 15:58:54 -0500 Received: from unknown (172.16.0.66) by 172.16.0.178 with QMQP; 4 Jan 2002 15:58:54 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO marty.face2interface.com) (216.238.72.249) by mail.ulster.net with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 15:58:55 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020104155304.00a81030@216.238.4.10> X-Sender: marty@216.238.4.10 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:58:01 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Marty Landman Subject: network via modem? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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, Apologies in advance if this has been covered or if it's just a dumb question. I guess I'm looking for a FAQ that might cover this if possible; maybe some advice on feasibility too. I have a FreeBSD box with a modem in it, though I'm not sure if the OS recognizes it. And a three node LAN running W95. I'm wondering if it would be possible and not overly difficult to set up a primitive type of communication between the FreeBSD machine and the LAN by connecting the modem from one into the unused modem of one of the LAN boxes, i.e. plugging a phone to jack line into the modems of the two machines. I realize even if I could do that, there would be lots of other problems including software to make use of it, but for starters can this be done and how hard is it? Thanks, Marty Website Creation Made SIMPL(tm) http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml WebSafe Color Picker -- http://face2interface.com/WebSafe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message