From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 15 15:34:46 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 93CD137B719 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:34:43 -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 f2FNWsi71367; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:32:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <006701c0ada7$f9a8b220$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Peter" , References: Subject: Re: BSD with two NIC's Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:30:51 -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 > On 03/15/2001 3:54:08 PM, "Matthew Emmerton" is quoted as saying: > > . . . .|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. That works fine with a null-modem cables connecting two serial ports, but you can't connect two modems to each other via a piece of (crossed) telephone cable. Modems expect to have 48VDC on the wire (by the design of the PSTN), and won't operate unless that voltage is present. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message