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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.vxd Subject: Re: Network modem? (FreeBSD + Windows) Date: 16 May 1996 12:21:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4nf6kn$22s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <960514163148-rrwood@io.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19502 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:87892 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:22998 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows:12546 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks:5025 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.vxd:3258 Roy Wood <rrwood@io.org> wrote: > I'm setting up a LAN more or less focused around a FreeBSD-based server > supporting mail, FTP, and WWW services. Some of the client machines on > the network will be Windows machines running Microsoft's TCP/IP stack. > The server has a modem installed, and I'm toying with the idea of > somehow setting up the server to act as a network modem accessible to > the Windows machines. So, the question is, has anyone done anything > like this, and if so, how? Yep. I wrote a simple modem-to-network forwarder some time ago. You should be able to find it on ftp.netcom.com (some kind sould put it up there), look for ``commsrv.tar.gz''. It's not ideal, refer to the README in the package for the current limitations. The client side is formed by the shareware COMt utility. (That's why i originally called the above program `comt'.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)