Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I have a Compaq Armada M700 laptop with a built-in Intel Pro 100+ miniPCI > NIC and a built-in Lucent LT WinModem modem. I want to configure the > system as a personal ISP such that I can dial into the machine from my PDA > and cell phone and have it route calls to my Linksys "Broadband" > router/hub (befsr81) which then connects to my cable modem. If the Lucent > WinModem is impossible or too much of a pain, I have a genuine USR > Sportster external 14.4k modem I can plug into the serial port, but I to > try with the WinModem, first. > Check out this page for the modem: http://ltmodem.heby.de/ > I want to configure the modem to only accept an incoming _data_ call from > my cell phone then issue a dynamic IP address, and then work with the NIC > for the rest. If anyone else calls, or if I establish a voice call from > my cell phone, I want the modem to ignore the incoming call. Also, how > do I handle/configure user authentication for dial-in access? Would it > be part of the PPP config? How is the dial-in DHCP pool defined? > Not sure about this. There are pacakges in Debian to setup a RADIUS server which handles inbound dial up. Try that first. Also, you would need to tell the kernel to rout packets between eth0 and ppp0, but I am pretty sure that the RADIUS config includes that sort of thing. > I am not knew to linux or debian or networking, but I've never set up this > kind of configuration before and would really appreciate help and > guidance. I am planning to use the recent Debian testing for my > install, unless people suggest otherwise. > I don't see a problem there. > I also look to take advantage of the ability to remote control/fix things > via an ssh client on my PDA (tussh) if something went wrong or needed to > be changed. > Good idea :-) > Thank you. > > Scott -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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