Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-14 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Thanks for your reply. I do have a script which updates the ip address of my machine and posts it on a web page. I have installed xringd package and it would be a cool thing, but it can not find the modem. It keeps complaning that /dev/ttyS1 does nor exist... I know it exists and ppp works fine.

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-14 Thread Daniel Martin
Jim Crumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I pretty much copied my setup from > http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html . > I think Daniel Martin still reads this list. He also > has a link to the Dynamic IP Hacks Mini-HOWTO, > which has more suggestions. Oh my. I'd hate to think I'm an aut

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 01:24:01PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Greeting everyone, > > Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do > not want to have my home computer on-line all the time. Hmm well personally I DO want my computer online all the time whether I

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Jim Crumley
> Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do > not want to have my home computer on-line all the time. > > Would it be possible to configure it in such a way so when I call home say > two times in a row, pon would be executed automaticaly and ip-up ( I did > it alrea

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Greg Vence
Me too. What I considered is using CallerID(ANI). However, if you call from inside a PBX, anybody calling the house could do it. If you've got a cell phone, this could work. I've also got ISDN, therefore, I get DNIS (which line was being called). Using the 'unlisted' nubmer would also give a

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Shaleh
I have been contemplating this. If you could get a program to answer the modem line, when you call it picks up and then hangs up, it launches ppp (similar to using something in the ip-down script). Should be do-able. Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > Greeting everyone, > > Very often, I have to work o

PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Greeting everyone, Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do not want to have my home computer on-line all the time. Would it be possible to configure it in such a way so when I call home say two times in a row, pon would be executed automaticaly and ip-up ( I did