From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Aug 23 20:25:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA02180 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 20:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iago.ienet.com (iago.ienet.com [207.78.32.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA02157; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 20:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iago.ienet.com (localhost.ienet.com [127.0.0.1]) by iago.ienet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA14389 Sat, 23 Aug 1997 20:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708240325.UAA14389@iago.ienet.com> From: pius@ienet.com To: BSD Mailing Archive Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Korsten Subject: Re: [Q] Win95 SLIP/PPP over null modem? Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 20:25:14 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sorry, I don't have the original message anymore. So I'm quoting the first reply. On Sun, 24 Aug 1997, peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl wrote: > BSD Mailing Archive shared with us: > > > > I'm trying to connect a Win95 laptop to my FreeBSD (2.1) machine and > > basically have the FreeBSD host act as a gateway to the rest of the > > network. I was wondering if I could simply use a null modem cable > > between the two COM ports and trick win95 DUN into using that? AFAIK, > > DUN will wait for a dial tone, which obviously isn't going to be there. > > Any ideas? Check out http://www.vt.edu:10021/K/kewells/net/ >From there you can download a null modem dialup networking driver for Windows 95/NT. Best regards, Pius