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Cipi wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> somebody can tell me this, i have one modem and two computers. Both
> computers are located in different rooms. As I don't want to buy
> another modem, somebody has told me that you can use a switch
> box/serial port switch so that one computer can use the modem one at
> the time, interchangeably, without having to pull out the modem and
> then plug in into another computer, every time my sister or me wanna
> use it.
> 
> What bother me are does the speed of the modem will be affected by the
> switch box or a long 5 serial cable to another computer. another thing
> is 'IS EVERYTHING WILL BE OK?', taking into account my connection to
> ISP and my phone line (i switched call waiting to ON).

If you just want stand-alone modem connectivity between your 2
computers, a simple switch box to physically share the modem is the best
idea.  Most hardware/electronics dealers can you provide you with this.


However, if you want to use both computers _at the same time_ with the
same modem this can also be done as well (I assume at least one of the
two computers you haveis a linux box since you are posting to
aus.computers.linux).  You can setup up IP Masquerading for linux to act
as a software router.  The other workstation can be a pc/mac/unix host. 
There is an IP masquerade mini howto in the linux documentation.
There are similar products for the PC to act as a software router
(Wingate) and for the macintosh (Apple IP gateway/Localtalk bridge)

Cheers

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Nick Lambropoulos
Systems Administrator,  Information Technology Services.
RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
Email: nickl@rmit.edu.au                                Phone: 9660 2934