From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 25 20:49:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6613A37B4CF for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:49:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0C3EE18A0; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:13:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03786189F; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:13:23 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:13:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Jim Durham Cc: 01031149@3web.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.3R <--> win95 In-Reply-To: <3A208CD4.8ACB0D27@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I realize that my scenario is not the *usual* way! However, I use a free > > ISP that insists in having users run his proprietary win95-only software. > > His dialer does not even show up in $MS DUN window. So Internet > > connections have to happen from the win95 side -- as far as I can tell. It > > would be great if I could run Lynx from the FBSD box and trigger a > > connection in the win95 box - but I've been told that win95 can't do that > > ( I believe that the correct terminology is that it cannot "route"). > > > Well, that's a bummer... but OK, I understand... There is some third party software that loads on to Win95 that does this. Unluckily I do not remeber any names, though Mercury 32 comes to mind, I remeber it being a bit flakey though. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message