Subject: Re: Connect modem to a VAX?
To: Tommy Smith <90675750@mobilpost.com>
From: Jacob Suter <jsuter@intrastar.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 08/10/1999 15:18:55
Get rich - write a firmware replacement for it to turn it into a PPP / TCPIP
/ Ethernet router.. :)

That'd rule! :)

JS

----- Original Message -----
From: Tommy Smith <thsmith@online.no>
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Connect modem to a VAX?


>
> I don't know of anyone offhand doing the same with VAXstation 3100 or
> MicroVAX 3100 class machines, but I see no reason they couldn't.  Getting
> from one of the DEC MMJ ports to an RS232 style setup with all the
> appropriate signal lines might require some research, but it should be
> feasible.
>
I have an Emulex NetQUE (ethernet) printer server with a fast serial port on
it.  Maybe I will try to connect a modem an write the code needed to talk
with the modem.

...Tommy.