Subj : Remote Dial-In Networking
To   : ANGUS MCLEOD
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Mon Apr 11 2005 09:32 pm

> You need to set up your Linux machine to receive inbound calls.  Once you
> do that, you can use a terminal-emulator to call up and get online with
> the Linux machine.  This will give you a serial/async connection to the
> Linux box.
>
> Once that's working you can run anything you like, such as telnet, if you
> want to.  You can also set up and run pppd which turns the CLI session
> into a regular dial-up network session, so you can use DUN or whatever
> internet dialler you like, to connect.  This gives you the advantage of
> being able to connect with *either* a terminal program, *or* with a
> network dialler.

This may seem like a silly question, but how do you set it up to receive
inbound calls?  I have looked for a package called pppd and, ironically
enough, there does not appear to be one (in debian's apt resource, anyway)
with such a simple name.  ;-)

I do have the ppp package installed, and there is a portion in webmin
that claims to be for setting up dial-in and out accounts, but no actual
mention of a dial up server.

Mike
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