From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 12 21:36:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA09710 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.nwla.com (root@NS.NWLA.COM [207.22.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09705 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dial2.nwla.com (dial2.nwla.com [207.22.207.21]) by ms1.nwla.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA14130; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 23:35:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 23:35:54 -0500 Message-Id: <199706130435.XAA14130@ms1.nwla.com> X-Sender: ewhite@ms1.nwla.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: transwestern.com@aros.net From: Eddie White Subject: Re: Serial 'Y' Connector Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk you can. take pins 2 and 7 from your SMDR port and connect it to pins 3 and 7 of the pc's db25 port. if you have a db9, you'll have to look it up the RD pin 'cause i can't remember the pinout. on my switches (at&t), handshaking is not needed. this may not be true for the pc's; depends on the software. you have to be careful of what format your switch puts out. for system 75 there are 5 diff formats, as i recall; all different. At 11:09 AM 6/12/97 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Sirs: > >I have a telephone switch that has a serial port that outputs call >records. I would like to split the port into two separate PC's. > >Is this possible? Any information you could give me would help! > >Thank you, > >Jeff Burgener > >