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Re: SOCKS Communication Library

• Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at tiscali.cz> May 11, 2005
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Kat wrote:
> Has anyone made a serial-to-serial communications port software that can 
> be used to connect computerA to computerB and see the internet that is 
> connected to computerB? In other words, computerB becomes a router, 
> using serial port to other computers like an ethernet lan? There's 300 feet of
>
> good new cat5-E cable buried underground that is useless at the moment. I 
> suspect slower serial port speeds is better than nothing.
> 
> Kat

On linux, you can use PPP/SLIP, you get eg. a ppp0/sl0 network interface,
and then do masquerading/routing/proxy/whatever. See
http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/index.html, chapters 7 and 8.

Windows knows this too, some years ago a played some tcp/ip games over cable
with my friend, but I can't remember if it was serial or parallel cable, just
remember we were using some driver that was part of Win98 ("Serial cable
network" or something like that, I don't have Win9x to check.

HTH,
	Martin