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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: [Q] Win95 SLIP/PPP over null modem?
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On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, BSD Mailing Archive wrote:

> Hi,
>   I apologise if this has been answered b4, but I haven't been in this
>   list for quite a while, and I did search the archives.
> 
>   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?

  It is looking for a dial-tone, it looking for a "CONNECT xxx" in
response to an "ATDT xxx-xxxx" command (plus some other AT commands it
uses).

  I think you can work around this by using the scripting addon (part of
the Plus pack, which also include SLIP support), and write a script which
doesn't send AT commands.

> Thanks in advance.
> Len.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Tom