From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 16:48:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A87E37B978 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3I5moh11303; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:48:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004180548.e3I5moh11303@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Nicolau Werneck Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial port LAN In-Reply-To: <200004172134.SAA28117@inetminas.estaminas.com.br> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:48:50 -0600 From: Chris Fedde Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:34:47 -0300 "Nicolau Werneck" wrote: +------------------ | Hello | | (translation: I have a great computer that has a modem and | ru(i)ns Win98, and i want to copy some 20 Mb from it to my 486 | running FreeBSD. I'm wandering if I can do it with serial cables | connection, and, maybe, use it modem too! wel, hope that | does'nt sound so confusing :Q ) +------------------ Sure it is posable to do this. There are several packages that allow the Win98 machine to behave as a term server and a router. But on the other hand you have everything you need in the FBSD box (except the modem) You need to read in the handbook (/usr/share/doc/handbook) about attatching terminals to your FBSD system and about ppp on a dedecated connection. Then you can move your modem to the FBSD box and set it up as a demand dialup router. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message