It worked for me for years.
Chaiya
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Rod Gotty wrote:
> At home, I have my Linux machine setup and can connect to the Internet via
> dialup PPP. At one time, I had it configured to automatically redial the
> ISP when the connection was lost and put a mechanism to ping a certain
> host every 5 minutes so as to keep the connection alive. My ISP didn't
> like that too much and told me not to do that anymore. Oh well.
>
> So, what I would like to do is find out if there is a way in which I can
> call my Linux machine from a regular telephone and have it connect to the
> Internet via my ISP. No, I don't want to set it up as a PPP Server and
> remotely connect to it. Instead, I want to be able to use any telephone
> (no modem here) to call my machine. My Linux machine sees ring indicate
> on the modem and says to itself (aha, Rod's calling me, I better connect
> to the Internet so he can telnet to me from where ever he is). Since my
> Linux machine gets a static IP address from my ISP, all I would need to do
> is to call my computer, let it ring once (or twice), hang up, connect to
> the Internet, and then telnet to my Linux machine.
>
> So, my question is, has any work to accomplish anything like this already
> been done? I would rather use something existing than to "reinvent the
> wheel" so to speak.
>
> TIA
> -Rod
>
>
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