heh sounds crazy enough to work!

jmarsh wrote:

Um guys, OP just wants to get PPP working over TCP/IP. Nothing to do with real modems and such.

Thanks so much, yes, I want that, and I think you have answered my question already, I just have to test it out. I will post when I do. Thanks for your help!!

I have to say though, you rascals have now made me interested in building a phone central in my home xD

Am I the only one wondering why you don't just use a regular LAN adapter?

Is it purely to hear the dial up negotiation sounds and/or experience dial-up speeds?

@BushLin, NIC needs different set of drivers and some software may not be able to use packet drivers and expect a modem to exist for example.

I have also some very good terminal programs for DOS, that only support communication through serial port, no NIC support at all. So far i have been emulating a modem with my windows 10 machine for my retro hardware over serial port. But it would be nice to play around with real internal 56k modems as well...

BushLin wrote:

Am I the only one wondering why you don't just use a regular LAN adapter?

Is it purely to hear the dial up negotiation sounds and/or experience dial-up speeds?

My DOS terminal software will not work with LAN. Also I didn't have an adapter around to try, but now I do, so I might just use that, but I am running into trouble (time to open another thread)

You can run PPP over a standard serial connection with no dialing.

gdjacobs wrote:

You can run PPP over a standard serial connection with no dialing.

I don't have a standard serial connection. Read the original post again.

In some box in the closet is my old 56k USRobotics modem.
I haven't used it since my puppy chewed partly through the power cord.
(I patiently explained to her why it was bad to chew it... she never chewed anything un-approved again).

She's since died of old age (good gravy, almost 7 years ago now), and this thread has me thinking of digging it out, fixing the power cord, and using it like I did back then, hopefully resurrecting a ghost of a feeling and memory of her.

(yeah, the dog meant a lot to me. More than my computers even. Yeah, all of them; combined).

kikendo wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

You can run PPP over a standard serial connection with no dialing.

I don't have a standard serial connection. Read the original post again.

Sorry about that. Thread overload!