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Gizmox
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Sharing Internet over an RS-232 serial port from the firewall
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September 11, 2024, 08:13:27 am »
Hello
I have an old Pentium machine, 166 MHz or something. I want to move files back and forth to it and from it, and I plan to do it using a serial cable. I do not have any ISA or PCI NIC at hand I could use in it.
I run OPNsense in a Futro S930. It has a serial port in it. Question is, is it possible to use that serial port as a PPP server to a PPP client in the ancient Pentium machine?
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bartjsmit
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Re: Sharing Internet over an RS-232 serial port from the firewall
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September 11, 2024, 01:12:05 pm »
This is likely easier on Linux:
https://www.howtodoityourself.org/pppoe-server-how-to-do-it-yourself.html
If the Futro is your only choice, you can run a hypervisor on it and pass the serial port to a Linux guest.
Bart...
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