Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 1998 18:26:54 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Ring-Detect and PPP [offtopic] |
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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Rod Gotty wrote:
>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.
I do that often using xringd.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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