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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeeder.servtech.com!news1.io.org!rrwood From: Roy Wood <rrwood@io.org> 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: Network modem? (FreeBSD + Windows) Date: Wed, 15 May 96 17:55:20 -0500 Organization: Silicon Angst Software Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <960514163148-rrwood@io.org> Reply-To: rrwood@io.org NNTP-Posting-Host: bpci.net3.io.org X-Newsreader: rnMac v2.0d2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19437 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:87857 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:22978 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows:12533 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks:5020 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.vxd:3249 This may not be worth the effort to implement, but here's the situation and question: 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? I expect that getting this to work would require writing a Windows driver to spoof a serial port while handling the sending/receiving of data via a TCP connection to the FreeBSD box. Of course, the FreeBSD box would have to run the same sort of thing in reverse. Actually, for a specific application I have in mind (FirstClass Client for Windows), I could probably get away with just telling the Windows software to talk to a specific port on the FreeBSD box, and have it handle all the modem-related details. Obviously, I would prefer not having to write the code myself (could be fun, but probably not worth the effort in the long run), so I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's done something like this. Thanks.... -Roy