Hi all, Is it possible to 'launch' a modem, on another computer, via an internal network, to connect to an ISP? eg. laptop via network cable, to desktop server, which has modem connected to it? Thanks... -- Best regards, Des Aubery... (The Home of Virtual Thermal Engineering) (adTherm Technology - www.adtherm.com - des@adtherm.com)
On Monday 19 January 2004 10:47, Des Aubery wrote:
Hi all,
Is it possible to 'launch' a modem, on another computer, via an internal network, to connect to an ISP?
eg. laptop via network cable, to desktop server, which has modem connected to it?
Assuming both machines are running suse, that is one of the ideas behind kinternet/cinternet and smpppd. The server runs smpppd and the laptop has /etc/smpppd-c.conf set up with the network information. Then you can connect See the man pages for smpppd.conf and smpppd-c.conf for the details
Thanks Anders... I will work on those leads... On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:48, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 19 January 2004 10:47, Des Aubery wrote:
Hi all,
Is it possible to 'launch' a modem, on another computer, via an internal network, to connect to an ISP?
eg. laptop via network cable, to desktop server, which has modem connected to it?
Assuming both machines are running suse, that is one of the ideas behind kinternet/cinternet and smpppd. The server runs smpppd and the laptop has /etc/smpppd-c.conf set up with the network information. Then you can connect
See the man pages for smpppd.conf and smpppd-c.conf for the details -- Best regards,
Des Aubery... (The Home of Virtual Thermal Engineering) (adTherm Technology - www.adtherm.com - des@adtherm.com)
On Monday 19 January 2004 16:48, Anders Johansson wrote:
Assuming both machines are running suse, that is one of the ideas behind kinternet/cinternet and smpppd. The server runs smpppd and the laptop has /etc/smpppd-c.conf set up with the network information. Then you can connect Great! I've been wondering about this too. So how does it work when the server is not SUSE? My flatmate and I run a old P-I for a dial-up gateway and mail retrieval. The box is his so he chooses the OS, and he doesn't like SUSE much. RH7.3 currently, although a change to either Slackware 9.1 or OpenBSD 3.4 is on the cards.
Thanks Hans
On Monday 19 January 2004 15:57, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Great! I've been wondering about this too. So how does it work when the server is not SUSE? My flatmate and I run a old P-I for a dial-up gateway and mail retrieval. The box is his so he chooses the OS, and he doesn't like SUSE much. RH7.3 currently, although a change to either Slackware 9.1 or OpenBSD 3.4 is on the cards.
Well, smpppd is basically just a frontend for wvdial, I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to run it on red hat 7.3, assuming wvdial is installed, although it may need to be recompiled, since I'm pretty sure suse has a newer glibc. Another source or problems I can imagine is that you may have to twiddle with paths and things, but with a little TLC it should work Of course, it's entirely possible that someone has made an rpm of smpppd for red hat somewhere, so perhaps you should search for it first
On Monday 19 January 2004 17:03, Anders Johansson wrote:
Well, smpppd is basically just a frontend for wvdial, I see no reason why Thanks, this clears things up a little for me. I'll go read up on that.
In the meantime I'm still pushing for SUSE Thanks Hans
The Monday 2004-01-19 at 16:57 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Great! I've been wondering about this too. So how does it work when the server is not SUSE? My flatmate and I run a old P-I for a dial-up gateway
Easy. Telnet or ssh to the server, and issue there the command used to launch the connection. It could be wvdial, it could be chat, a script, whatever. Or you could setup the server for autodial. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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The Monday 2004-01-19 at 16:57 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Great! I've been wondering about this too. So how does it work when the server is not SUSE? My flatmate and I run a old P-I for a dial-up gateway
Easy. Telnet or ssh to the server, and issue there the command used to launch the connection. It could be wvdial, it could be chat, a script, whatever.
Or you could setup the server for autodial.
Hmmm. What ever happens to DialOnDemand. We used to use it here until we got a permanent connection. Ken Schneider
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