What's bad about a normal ISDN card ? Why bother with the external modem and the serial port etc. ???
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > > Can anyone point me to a reliable, secure, and easy-to-set-up > > dial-back solution for Linux? I need to dial from a Linux box into > > another Linux box (both Red Hat 7.* if that matters), and have the > > second one hang up and dial me back. > > 1. on the machine that will ultimately be making the call, set up a dial > out script with chap or pap, or both :-) > > 2. Install sudo. > > 3. Assuming your remote system is called "fred", make sure that > "sudo pppd call fred" works properly. > > 4. Create a user for fred. Now you can have it's .bash_profile consist of > sudo pppd ...... > logoff. > > 5. The more creative types, can even not allow incoming calls at all. > put in your .procmailrc file: > > :0: > * ^Subject: CALL-ME > | sudo pppd ..... > > Sending yourself the appropriate email gets you your call back. Although > I would have it start a script that does a little more checking and > possibly a sleep command to allow your calling system to hang up. > > If you could find an SMS->EMAIL gateway, you could start the call with > your cell phone. > > > If a faster connection is needed, Dynamode sells an ISDN T/A for about > $100, that looks and acts like an external modem. You just plug it into > your serial port and use it as if it were a 64k (or 128k) hayes > compatible modem and you can make ISDN data calls to many places outside of > Israel. > > Geoff. > > > -- Schlomo Schapiro Senior System Administrator MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd. 24 Mishol Hadkalim St.,97278 Jerusalem, Israel Telephone: + 972-2-586-6989 Ext. 131 Mobile: + 972-55-767898 Fax: + 972-2-586-7720 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.mobileye.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
