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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!uninett.no!news.algonet.se!uab.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!news From: Kent Boortz <kent@erlang.ericsson.se> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I share a modem with Win95 machine? Date: 14 May 1997 01:36:32 +0200 Organization: Ericsson Software Technology AB, Erlang Systems Lines: 30 Message-ID: <d2wwp3eygv.fsf@erlang.ericsson.se> References: <863533504.77882@bamboo.palms.nq.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: townsend.ericsson.se X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40803 If you by "sharing" mean that you want to run Internet applications from the FreeBSD machine and a Win95 machine at the same time then the answer is YES! But you need create a small network with your FreeBSD and Win95 machine. Two cheap Ethernet card and a twisted pair crossover cable will do. (I imagine PLIP, Parallel Port IP, will work too but I have never tried it.) There is an excellent "Pedantic PPP primer - IP Aliasing" on the tutorial page "http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/index.html" There is a section how to set up Windows95 in this setup. It took me some late nights to set up a small Network at home with a PC running FreeBSD and a Macintosh. Now I can use Netscape on the Mac without crashing all the time (running PPP on MacOS, a nonprotected, nonpreemptive OS with a crappy PPP implementation is just too much ;-) Even more fun, I run netatalk, an AppleTalk server, on my FreeBSD box so the Mac can mount file systems from the FreeBSD machine. I can also print from the FreeBSD box on a LaserWriter connected FreeBSD -> Ethernet -> Mac -> LocalTalk -> LaserWriter! Sorry if I'm a bit off topic but I'm a bit excited about how many things that can be done with a single PC, an "open" operating system and the wonderful free software you all write and share. I have worked on Unix machines for years but never configured a system myself until now when I got a PC. It is hard but fun. /kgb