On Friday 28 May 2004 11:33 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: > Can anyone tell me if it's possible to configure my MDK 10.0 machine to > mimick an ISP's behaviour and recieve a dial up connection request with > my external modem, then sharing my LAN internet connection with this > machine. yes, of course, this is GNU-linux, and GNU-linux really does work.
> I use MDK on my test computer at work, it is on the shop LAN and we are > soon to install satellite broadband on our network. This will be great > for getting large winblows drivers and burning them to disk, but for > some things the customers computer needs to be connected to the 'net > itself. > > Currently this ties up an additional phone, but If I could get them to > dial up my machine (Phone line running direct from modem to modem) and > share the net this way things would be much quicker and easier. I think I miss understood... you want to do this without using the telphone company at all???? this (and I ain't never considered it before, since a serial to serial cable would do the a much faster transer, as would a lpt2lpt connection > > -Aidan Holmes. so you want the customers modem to call into your modem? as far as really tranfering files, i think there are better ways,,, you might consider reading man pppd, as that seems to me to be the place that explains a few of the switches, and stuff, for ppp. -- linux counter #167806
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