You can use a direct serial conection with a null modem cable. Essentail
it is a modem connection and it takes a null modem driver. The Linux end
is niot a problem but I do not know if there is null modem driver form a
Mac. Do search on the net, I am sure there is one out there.
Rob Tanner wrote:
> My wife has an old Macintosh she's mighty attached, and I want to see
> if I can attach it to my machine to take advantage my internet
> connection. Her's is a Performa, not ethernet ready, and the cost of
> ethernet for that machine and the national debt are about equal.
>
> Is it possible to set up a ppp connection between our two machines
> (she's got the appropriate control panel and I have rh6.2) over modems
> you normally plug into phone lines but instead plugged back to back via
> an ordinary UTP line? The catch is that no phone system means no dial
> tone and not dialing the phone or answering. Does anyone know how to
> set modems up like that -- it's certainly not the norm, at least not in
> home computing.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
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