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Re: remote modem access



on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:38:39AM -0500, mheyes@lincolnfp.com (mheyes@lincolnfp.com) wrote:
> I have just setup a VERY small ethernet network with one user box and one
> server. User and server can see each other, ping, etc and user can access
> Internet provided the server is already logged on to my ISP. What is the
> best way to enable the user to access the server's modem to dial out and
> connect to the ISP? I was thinking of trying a shell script to rlogin and
> pon, but is there a better way?
> 
> Thanks! Just starting to learn a bit about networking (obviously).

For an application such as this, diald, if you don't mind the modem
being used _whenever_ network access is being requested.  I have a 2nd
dedicated phoneline and use a demand-dialed persistent PPP connection --
it's always live, and reconnects when it goes down.  DSL will happen
eventually.

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