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Mac and Linux Sharing Serial Ports?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday August 28, 1999 @09:59AM from the share-and-share-alike dept.

c-tron asks: "I would like to share several serial ports from a ISDN board in a Linux server to some MacOS clients, because I want to share a pool of modems/ISDN cards to an Apple network. The service should be transparent to the user. Are there any solutions (even commercial)? The Linux side is not the problem (I could do that on my own). The problem is the MacOS client. "

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why? by mattdm · 1999-08-31 03:57 · Score: 2

Why share the serial ports? Wouldn't it be better to make the Linux box in charge of the ISDN connections (bringing them up and dropping them as bandwidth is needed) and then connect the Macs to it via a TCP/IP lan? Or am I missing something?

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