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Re: Sharing a modem via network



A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Oh, gosh... I guess I wasn't clear enough. I am not interested in
> doing NAT or Masquerading -- I'm on a cable modem, and have NAT
> already set up.
> 
> What I was looking for is my workstation being able to use server's
> modem to do stuff like faxing and dialing out to a BBS. Can I set up a
> comm port on one machine, but so that it would be actually using comm
> port of another? Like permanent comm port tunnelling or something of
> that sort?

Network block devices will probably do what you want - they're in the 2.2
kernel, though.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch@creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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