On Friday 30 May 2003 08:12 am, James Neave wrote: > Hi, > > Is the following possible? > > Can a LEAF box, without any coding required, auto-answer a modem, > authenticate the caller and start a PPP interface across that > connection?
Yep, if you configure your system to do so. I have posted a draft of a PPP server howto on the leaf-devel list, it will come up in a search of the archives (and linked in leaf-user a week or so ago). > Once I have the box connected, the caller can initiate TCP connections > to any local daemons running, yes? Yes, through use of proxy-arp'ing the ppp interfaces to the local LAN. > What if the modem was a PCMCIA modem? Likely if the modem is supported, I haven't tried that one. -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net http://guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
