From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 15 15: 7:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57C9437B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:07:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 23:07:23 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:08:51 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: matt@gsicomp.on.ca, "" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: BSD with two NIC's Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03/15/2001 3:54:08 PM, "Matthew Emmerton" is quoted as saying: . . . .|> 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.) Why not I remember playing games in the dos world by doing a null modem connection back when NIC's were too expensive for me. Basically just two computers sitting next to each other, and dialing each other up. . . . .| . . . .|-- . . . .|Matt Emmerton www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message