From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 15 14:58: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 763EF37B719 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:58:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f2FMuBi71273; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:56:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <003c01c0ada2$d82d0470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: , Cc: References: <02FDD89F.4885F2D4.00877270@netscape.net> Subject: Re: BSD with two NIC's Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:54:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Are you suggesting that I try to connect the pc on the Internet Lan to the > the BSD laptop using a modem connection? Cause they both have Modems... > But i wonder what it would take to setup my modem on BSD? > and is it possible to have such a direct connection between two normal dialup modems?? Yep, it's perfectly fine -- provided that both computers are going through the phone network to connect to each other. (You can't hook modem A to modem B with a standard RJ11 patch cable, nor with a crossed RJ11 patch cable.) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message