Hello, I finally got a floppy install of Slackware on a box with no CD-Rom drive. I want to in turn make it a server and have it share the internet with my personal computer. Here's the problem, in the server, I only have 1 NIC and a Modem. The wire fits into the ethernet jack as well as the modem, so can I make it work like this?:

Outside world to Server's NIC
Crossover Cable from Server's Modem to Desktop's NIC

I shouldn't be limited to just 56K speeds, right? It should work just as if it was another NIC but as tty1 or something, right?

Am I way off track, or is this indeed possible?

Thanks for your time
-Jared

no way!

you can use the modem to connect a phone line and dialup an isp and share the dialup connection over the ethernet

buy another nic

I'm using Cat3(Phone Wire) right now for my internet connection, so I know it will fit. So, its not the hardware, its some how on the software. Iptables works just the same with a tty device as an ethernet card rules wise, so I don't get what's holding me back. Is a Modem really limited to 56K or whatever?

-Jared

Standard ethernet 10/100BaseT uses pins one, two, three and six of an RJ45. Telephone lines generally use pins four and five of the Rj45 when a two or four pin connector is plugged into an RJ45. Pins two and three for line one and pins one and four for line two are used on an RJ11 .

Just because you have a six or eight pin socket that a two or four pin connectors will plug into does not mean it's wired correctly.


The wire should be cat5e for the best performance, however if the wire is not very long it should work with any twisted pair wire that's hooked up right.

Not to mention the networking protocol matters.

I've heard of pppoe but never heard of eoppp

plus modems are much more expensive and slower than nics, so I don't think it's worth doing even if it is possible.


you might consider plip if you can't buy a $10 nic, it's much faster than slip or standard ppp. By the time you buy a plip cable you can buy a nic as well.