dial up help

[Matthew Alexander]

Yes, you can configure it for dial-out only, dial-in only, or both.  It will 
also automatically detect an outgoing connection and dial your ISP.  I've used 
it before when I've been traveling and needed dial-up access on my laptop.  
Yes, it's a long-distance call, but unfortunately Juno and Netzero don't run 
under Linux.  So then the RM356 assigns my laptop all the necessary network 
info and I can access the Internet out through my cable Internet connection.

http://buy.com has them for $185.95, but you may be able to find them cheaper 
elsewhere.
~Matt


Quoting Jordan Bill-G13271 <Bill.Jordan@motorola.com>:

> Matt,
> You mentioned dial in, I looked at the specs, but it didn't mention dial
> in. That would be great if it can do that. Whats the cost, and can you
> get them locally?
> Bill
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Alexander [mailto:matt@netpro.to]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:37 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: dial up help
> 
> 
> 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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