On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 07:08:08PM -0800, Jacob Joseph wrote:
> Hello once again. I posted this about a month ago(maybe longer) and was
> wondering if anyone had some suggestions yet.
>
> I would like to be able to have my linux box connect diald ppp0(via
> diald is fine, so all it would take is a ping or something) upon being
> called with a normal telephone. It's not a voice modem, so what I was
> thinking is similar to how mgetty can be set up: say 2 calls in 30 seconds
> would prompt it. That's what I need, but I have no idea as to how to do it.
> I somehow need a script that will ping an ip, which brings up the link,
> after hearing 2 calls on the modem within 30 seconds. I have no programming
> experience, but is there a program that could be retrofited(mgetty?) to
> provide such functionality?
This is an old, and I think, twice solved problem. grep around
freshmeat.net and the mgetty website. I have seen several reports of
programs that do just this sort of thing.
It would be fairly straightforward to implement using mgetty+vgetty.
One suggestion though, instead of pinging an outside IP,
echo force >> /etc/diald/diald.ctl
or run dialmon or connect to diald's control port and send commands...
-Gyepi
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