Crazy idea that probably won't work, but would be cool if it does.
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I have a bunch of these old PCI data fax modems sitting around at home.
I was wondering if there would be a way to configure them as LAN ports on my pfsense router. I know they'd be slow, but I have several devices that except dsl connections, and it'd be great to re-purpose them. So basically what I'm asking is if there are any freeBSD drivers or hacks out there that can make this possible? -
i don't see how you could.
a duck can never be a pig.
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The problem with these is that these cards are FXO by design (check this out), they can only dial-out. You'd need FXS cards to acutally receive an analog dial-in on them. And that's only the hardware part, you need to hack pfSense to act as a dial-up server.
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If they show up as serial ports, you could use them to dial out, but not for dial in. Really not worth the effort though. Even if you could accept dialin you can't make a connection higher than 33.6 if both ends are analog. To accept 56k connections it has to be terminated digital on the provider end (usually a T1 into an access server).
Do everyone a favor and chuck them in a recycling bin. :-)
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thats neither a duck nor a pig, but lets not argue and get a
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Even if it works, what is the purpose?
I mean, 33.3kbps in 2016? -
Even if it works, what is the purpose?
I mean, 33.3kbps in 2016?I consider that would be not the real thing together with pfSense. But, on other OS such as Linux you could,
- send email (dial in, send dial out)
- send fax (Hylafax)
- send sms (SMS ServerTools 3.0)
- let the admin dial in, to devices where no 3G/UMTS/HSPA/4G/ is available
Together with the Soekris net5501 it could run well if the tech. specs. are matching the needs.
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With these comments Ive just finally thrown that box with the brand new nos modem into the trash…
;D
Good effort and way to think outside the box however!
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Apparently those intel cards can double as Digium X100P FXO cards in Asterisk.
Other than that they're winmodems. Blecch.
