Topic: Dial in problem

[guppy]

I know everyone will say dont do it.

I need to create a dial-in through a modem that will give me access to the internet.
My box is sitting on a broadband connection and I live out of town. I need to set it up so I can stay connected to the box in town.
I have seen a rpm called dialin from stephen Noble but I cannot find a valid link for it. I have installed mgetty ok.
Oh yes  I am new to linux  2 days ago was the first time I layed eyes on it.
Still getting used to the file structure.

Any help would be appreciated.

Guppy

[oregonbob]

If they tell you "don't do it", I would like to hear why. If you have a good password and don't give out the dial-in phone number its much more secure than *any* high-speed connection. Its a "private line" - as secure as a VPN. I have done this for 20 years on Unix systems, thats how everybody did it before high-speed was available.

I have not done it on SME yet, but I am about to. You need to look at mingetty. My RedHat 8 included "mingetty-1.00-3.rpm". Mingetty is used to set the modem for dial-in, and answer the call, provide a user login and prompt. The you need to invoke PPP on that connection, thats what I have not done - yet.

[Anonymous]

I downloaded this very nice version of mgetty for dial-in modems. It was super-easy to install, and worked great http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/mgetty-1.1.30-5.i386.rpm. It was three easy steps:

  1) install the RPM
  2) connect modem to COM1, which is /dev/ttyS0
  3) add this line to /etc/inittab:
     

S0:3:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS0

Works great! This mgetty version is feature-loaded, with also a fax variant. It is only a serial login though. I haven't tried to add PPP yet. There are some very good HOW-TO's at http://www.magnetinternet.com/LDP/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html#toc12

[Virtus]

Watchin this thread with great intrest

My challenge is that I want.

1a : Get a dial-in connection to my SME from an outside line, to get internet and "VPN" access to the specified user share folder.
1b : Get the SME to callback to a user specified number and establist the connection.

2 : Setup a VPN Gateway throug the internet from a outside internet connection the establish a "Voice over IP" connection to my modem so I from any place with internet access on my laptop can establish a directe VPN to my SME, make phonecalls throug my modem on the SME, using my homephone number and phonebill ofcourse

Dont have any idea on how to solve these 2 challenges, any advice would be appriciated