From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 15: 9:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D1614CF8 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id RAA43478; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:07:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:07:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem Sharing across a LAN Message-ID: <19990412170710.C42830@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from "Rick Hamell" on Mon Apr 12 14:29:13 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Apr 12), Rick Hamell said: > > I need to let several Win95/98 machines share a bank of > outgoing modems. I know I can get something like an older Livingston > PM2 or possibly put 3 or 4 modems in one FreeBSD machine. The problem > is, how would I let the 95 machines see the modems? Samba dosen't > provide for this kind of interface. Does any one know of any third > party software/hardware solutions that will work with FreeBSD? Tactical Software makes a nice package called DialOut/IP. We use it to talk to a homewritten modempool app on BSD. http://www.tactical-sw.com -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message