Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:17:04 +0700 (ICT) | From | Chaiya Intasoie <> | Subject | Re: Ring-Detect and PPP |
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Hi, crond will do this for you perfectly, well not the way you would call your machine. But I let crond to see if my connection to the ISP is lost every 5 minutes if there is no connection then re-dial again.
It worked for me for years.
Chaiya
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Rod Gotty wrote:
> At home, I have my Linux machine setup and can connect to the Internet via > dialup PPP. At one time, I had it configured to automatically redial the > ISP when the connection was lost and put a mechanism to ping a certain > host every 5 minutes so as to keep the connection alive. My ISP didn't > like that too much and told me not to do that anymore. Oh well. > > So, what I would like to do is find out if there is a way in which I can > call my Linux machine from a regular telephone and have it connect to the > Internet via my ISP. No, I don't want to set it up as a PPP Server and > remotely connect to it. Instead, I want to be able to use any telephone > (no modem here) to call my machine. My Linux machine sees ring indicate > on the modem and says to itself (aha, Rod's calling me, I better connect > to the Internet so he can telnet to me from where ever he is). Since my > Linux machine gets a static IP address from my ISP, all I would need to do > is to call my computer, let it ring once (or twice), hang up, connect to > the Internet, and then telnet to my Linux machine. > > So, my question is, has any work to accomplish anything like this already > been done? I would rather use something existing than to "reinvent the > wheel" so to speak. > > TIA > -Rod > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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