dial up help

[Matthew Alexander]

I've used the Netgear RM356 Modem Router for quite a while for the same 
purpose.  It does DHCP and NAT, you can write your own IP filtering rules, you 
can easily configure it for dial-in access, and it has a built in 4-port hub.  
It's a more spendy solution, but it does come in a cute little metal blue 
case.  ;-)  And heck, if you've got another Internet connection such as Cable 
or DSL, then you could even be your own one-line ISP.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, all 
this can be done with the solution that Wayne provided, but...  you still have 
to factor in that cute little metal blue case.  ;-)

http://netgear.com/categories.asp?xrp=4&yrp=10

~Matt


Quoting Wayne Conrad <wconrad@yagni.com>:

> I'm not really going to answer your question -- I don't know how.  But
> I'll tell you a different way to solve the problem: Don't mess with
> configuring dialup on Mandrake, Redhat, Debian, Windows, or whatever. 
> Instead, get an old 386 or 485 with 8MB of RAM and a floppy drive, a
> NIC, and a modem.  Download the Freesco disk image (www.freesco.org),
> boot the box with it, configure the box to be a dial-up router with DHCP
> support, and plug your Mandrake box (and any other boxes you have) into
> it via an ethernet hub.
> 
> You only need a monitor and keyboard on the box when you're configuring
> it the first time.  After it's set up, you can administer it via
> telnet.
> 
> Other hardware you'll need: A NIC for each box you want to connect to
> the router ($10-$25 each), a hub ($20 at Fry's electronics, although if
> you want to be very cheap and only want to connect one PC to the router,
> you can skip the hub and just use a crossover cable), and cables
> (perhaps $5 each, depending upon length and where you get them).
> 
> The networking parts are so cheap now that only students are allowed to
> whine about the cost :)  And if you don't have an old 386 or 486, just
> go to garage sales and thrift stores.   A good one is usually $20 or
> less (or free, if you pass by a neighbor throwing one out).
> 
> It's more work and more hardware, but for me, it's a whole lot less
> frustrating to get dialup working on Freesco than it is to get it
> working in a "regular" distro.  The bonus is that you won't ever have to
> configure dialup on any of your machines, for any operating system, ever
> again.  You just configure each operating system on each machine to do
> DHCP.  And if you change ISP's, or get DSL, or get cable modem, or
> whatever, all you have to do is reconfigure the router and go -- you
> won't have to reconfigure each OS on each box on your LAN.
> 
> Freesco even lets you switch back and forth between different
> configurations.  I've got my router set up with two different dialup
> ISPs and my DSL line.  When the DSL line goes down, I just use my
> browser to tell the freesco box to become a dialup router again and my
> network is back online.
> 
> Oh, and you get firewalling, too.  And NAT.
> 
> That's my sideways answer, which doesn't really answer your question but
> presents another way to solve the problem.
> 
>     Wayne
> 
> On Wed, 11 July 2001, Ho Ping wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am very new to Linux. I have thus far been able to
> > install/boot Mandrake on my second partition.
> > How/Where do I begin to configure a dialup to my ISP.
> > I have contacted the ISP and received the standard
> > "Huh" reply. My Win98 dials up just fine, so I am not
> > detered at this time.
> > 
> > Help?
> > 
> > Bob
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