Re: linux and 2 modems - is it possible??

Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher (dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:40:25 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 brasimpex@earthling.net wrote:

> linux and 2 modems - is it possible??
>
> hi, all.
>
> I am a newbie to the linux world so, if it is a very stupid question, please my
> apologises.
>
> I was here speculating in the following: since linux is a real multi-threading or
> multi-process os, and I need to build a proxy and a fax-server, is it possible to
> just put 2 modems in a single box and give each one to a separate process, say,
> to the ppp-on-demand for the proxy and fax-on-demand to the clients, all in a
> single linux box??
> any reference on how-to's, mini-ht, personal reports will be very appreciated.

you can do whatever you want, you're just stopped by your imaginations, and
sometimes by the number of your serial ports ;-)

references:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ldp.html

hope that will help

++dent

-- 
Thomas Mirlacher	Student of ComputerScience, University of Salzburg
dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at	http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~dent

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