I'd like to set up my machine so that I can dial it up and run it remotely.
I believe that mgetty is the general program, but is there a debian package
which will configure and ask me all the right questions and make all my
dreams come true? (Lately, it seems like 2.0 approaches this)
Something
Something similarly cool would be if I could set it up to listen for a
particular ring pattern (a one ringer) that signals it to ppp into my isp
and then email me the IP address it has been issued. Then I could telnet to
it or run it as a web server, etc. I'm sure this has been done before.
YE == Young, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
YE I'd like to set up my machine so that I can dial it up and run it remotely.
YE I believe that mgetty is the general program, but is there a debian package
YE which will configure and ask me all the right questions and make all my
YE dreams come true?
WL == Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WL Check out http://www.ml.org/ml/dyndns/ ... you can get a hostname,
WL register your new IP everytime it changes, and refer to your host by name
WL rather than IP.
www.ddns.org offers a similar service, but does the updates more
often. There are
*- Martin Bialasinski wrote about Re: PPP Server Package?
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| YE Something similarly cool would be if I could set it up to listen for a
| YE particular ring pattern (a one ringer) that signals it to ppp into my
isp
| YE and then email me the IP address it has been issued. Then I could telnet
s == servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s There is Debian package:
s Package: xringd
[...]
It still surprises me sometimes how many packages debian has... It is
also amusing to ask a question and get pointed to a small utility
living on the disk. It has been there since the beginning, but you
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