From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 7 13:43:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18465 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18388 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:43:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA11097; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:41:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:41:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Adam W. Hawks" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: com port question. In-Reply-To: <199808070222.WAA16442@hawks.caro.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Adam W. Hawks wrote: > Is it possible to connect 2 com ports so that a computer connected to > com2 with a null modem cable can use com1's modem without installing a > modem in the attached computer? So, you want to connect two computers using a null modem cable and attach to the other machine, which happens to have a modem attached to it's other serial port? Sure, set up pppd on one end and ppp on the other. Took me about two hours one day to get it running. > I was thinking maybe their was a utility or way to attach two com > ports togetherin this fashon. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message