On Friday 19 September 2003 12:35 pm, Sean Hafeez wrote:
i am using a freebsd box as a router. it has a serial port. i would
like to hook up a modem and use it to manage the router if the lines go
down. now i know you can use the serial port as a console but how about
when i stick a modem on it. does anything change. anything i need to
install?
thanks!
If the serial port is sio0 (COM1) or sio1 (COM2), you won't need to do
anything.
If it's sio2 or sio3, you'll need to enable those serial ports in the kernel.
In FreeBSD 4.*, it's an easy adjustment to the kernel configuration file --
just find the sio lines and delete the word disable. In FreeBSD 5.*, it's
different; and we'll both have to wait for someone else to chime in!
Best of luck,
Andrew Gould
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