From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 17:49:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7B514E70 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991224014703.NUQM7552.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@main.wgaf.net> for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:47:03 -0800 Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 121Jqx-0000bS-00; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:49:11 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sharing a modem over network X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 23 Dec 1999 20:49:09 -0500 Message-ID: <87puvxf6qy.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it possible to share a modem, installed in a 3.4-R box, with other computers on LAN? I don't mean for establishing PPP link to an ISP. What I need is to share the device itself, for faxing and dialing BBS's. I need it to be done "transparently" for the applications, i.e. I want apps on my workstation to be able to work with the modem as if it were a local comm port. What would be involved in settin this up? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message