Dial Up To ASDL Router
Hello, I've been given a company laptop which is ok but they dont supply data cards. Instead I have been given a 0845 number to dial when at a place with no Internet. Instead I would like to use my mobile to dial my home phone number which is not 0845 therefore included in the thousands of free minutes that I get each month. The only thing that is on in my house is the Freebsd server so how can I set this up to use the dial up modem to answer the phone and connect it to the Internet through the ADSL it is plugged into. I've googled but as I dont know what this type of software is called I didn't find much. Anyone know of any software that will do this? Cheers Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dial Up To ASDL Router
Richard Collyer wrote: Hello, I've been given a company laptop which is ok but they dont supply data cards. Instead I have been given a 0845 number to dial when at a place with no Internet. Instead I would like to use my mobile to dial my home phone number which is not 0845 therefore included in the thousands of free minutes that I get each month. The only thing that is on in my house is the Freebsd server so how can I set this up to use the dial up modem to answer the phone and connect it to the Internet through the ADSL it is plugged into. I've googled but as I dont know what this type of software is called I didn't find much. Anyone know of any software that will do this? The software you want is called FreeBSD, and as luck would have it it's already installed on your server. You just need to configure it to do what you want. Plug a standard home phone jack into a standard external modem and plug that into a serial port on the home server, or use an internal modem card that is NOT a software modem (a.k.a. a Winmodem). Configure the server to offer a PPP or SLIP connection when the modem is dialed into, and walla! You just became your own dialup ISP. The server is probably already configured as a network gateway with NAT capabilities; if not you'll need that configured too. There is more to it than that, of course, but further detail may be specific to your hardware and circumstances. Anyway, you can probably find just about everything you need to know about it in the FreeBSD Handbook and/or the Web site's articles on home networking. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Dial Up To ASDL Router
Your post is missing a lot of description. I will try to fill in the missing info. Your general wish is to use your personal mobile phone and connect it to your work provided laptop which is running win/xp and be able to dial a landline phone number to your FreeBSD server which is currently connected to the public internet over a 24/7 ADSL line. You need hardware to do this. The laptop needs a winmodem with a telecom phone line that connects to your mobile phone. If your mobile phone does not have i/o jack which most do not, you are dead in the water. You could still plug the laptop winmodem telecom phone line into any hotel or airport public access port and dial the landline phone number to your FreeBSD server. Your home FreeBSD server would need a separate FreeBSD modem (IE not winmodem) and you would use user ppp to answer the incoming call. In this mode your home FreeBSD server would be acting as an gateway LAN box so your dial in connection could have access to your internet connection to public internet. Speed of this laptop/modem to server/modem is limited to 33k under best conditions as 56k is only possible when connecting to ISP which supports 56k. Speed over mobile would be considerable slower. Configuring user ppp for dial in support is covered in the install guide at www.a1poweruser.com give it a read for the details. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Collyer Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:59 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dial Up To ASDL Router Hello, I've been given a company laptop which is ok but they dont supply data cards. Instead I have been given a 0845 number to dial when at a place with no Internet. Instead I would like to use my mobile to dial my home phone number which is not 0845 therefore included in the thousands of free minutes that I get each month. The only thing that is on in my house is the Freebsd server so how can I set this up to use the dial up modem to answer the phone and connect it to the Internet through the ADSL it is plugged into. I've googled but as I dont know what this type of software is called I didn't find much. Anyone know of any software that will do this? Cheers Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
