From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 1: 3:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B2C37B403 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@pan.realtime.co.uk) Received: from [213.52.146.196] (helo=pan.realtime.co.uk) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15A5cZ-0007cu-01; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:03:23 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15A5cC-0000G4-00; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:03:00 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "Stephen Hilton" Cc: Subject: Re: Start on-demand PPP from remote telephone References: Date: 13 Jun 2001 09:03:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <863d94g62z.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Stephen Hilton" writes: > I have a FreeBSD 4.3 IPFilter 3.4.17 based firewall/gateway > system at home that uses an on-demand PPP connection to my > ISP via Hayes type 56k modem. > > I would like to be able to call via telephone my home number > from a remote location and have getty/mgetty? then start a > PPP connection to my ISP after detecting the "RING" so I can > SSH into my home system. > > Searching the web finds lots of PPP info, but I have been > unable to locate this situation. Check freshmeat for wish you were here. I wrote it for Linux, but a port to freebsd shouldn't take too long. It just uses mgetty and assumes that you have caller id on your phone. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message