Re: modem & setserial (auto dialup out there?)

[Laurent PICOULEAU <lcrpic@a2points.com>]

Hi,
On Fri, 02 Apr, 1999 à 06:05:23AM -0500, debian@grey-cat.com wrote:
> First: I could swear there was a script floating around 
> to have your machine dial up your ISP & email the IP 
> address to you. I thought it was in an early issue of 
> Linux Gazette. Does anyone know if & where I might find 
> such a creature?
> 
Are you refering to 
/usr/doc/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/Dynamic-IP-Hacks.gz ?

> I'd write it myself, except I'm frustrated with my ppp
> dial up script as it is. It worked fine under some old 
> slackware distribution, but when I upgraded completely
> to Debian hamm (I now run slink) I began having one minor
> problem: after dialing up & turning off the connection
> the modem would be 'hung' and I have to run the hylafax 
> probemodem script. 
>
You should try pppconfig and use pon and poff after : they are easy to
configure and work fine IMHO
 

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