Subj : Remote Dial-In Networking
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Sniper
Date : Tue Apr 12 2005 11:23 am

-=> MIKE POWELL wrote to ANGUS MCLEOD <=-

 > 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.

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

Huh?  Then what is this?

"ppp - Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon."

They just didn't put on the "d" at the end... :)

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

The way it works, is not a "Server" that you have running... that's
Windows... Linux will configure the modem where you can have it answer
on the first ring or however many, and when it "hears" the modem
connect, it will run its stuff that you tell it to so you can connect,
either to the box itself, or start up the PPP stuff so you can connect
to the internet or network. 

Some other programs you might wanna apt-get:

pppconfig - A text menu based utility for configuring ppp.
mgetty - Smart Modem getty replacement
dhcp-client - DHCP Client
dhcp3-client - DHCP Client
dnsmasq - A caching DNS forwarder.

See, I don't wanna take all the fun outta what your trying to do, so,
I'll let you figure out the rest... I just tossed a couple of hints...
:)

 

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