[PLUG] Dialup Server on network with Linksys DSL/Cablemodem router

Anthony Schlemmer aschlemm at attbi.com
Thu May 9 07:00:54 UTC 2002


If you only need a command-line interface, the other way to do this 
would be to have a modem setup so you can dial-in and get a "login" 
prompt using "mgetty" on the server. You can use a simple terminal 
program that supports a VT100 or other simple text-based terminal 
program to dial into the server. I've never configured a Linksys router 
and so if it requires a web-brower then "mgetty" may not work unless 
the router configuration setup works with a text-based browser.

Tony

On Wednesday 08 May 2002 23:21 pm, Greg Long wrote:
> I found a quick how-to at:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/tips/Dialup-Tips/ppp_server_t
>ips -1.html
>
>
> My questions, before I begin are: will this allow me to interface
> with the router, and other on the LAN?  Essentially what I am trying
> to do is setup a dialup server so that when away on the road, I can
> dial in and have internet access, along with access to the other
> computers on our LAN.  We have a Linksys BEFSR41 Cable/DSL router,
> though there sometimes arises the need to do a DHCP release and
> refresh from "inside".  It's imperative that the dialup server allows
> me to do this by connecting to the router internally on 192.168.1.1.
>
> I guess my main question is:  Since there is only one modem/phone
> line, should I configure it to just hand out a static IP?  The other
> systems on the network have dynamic IP's in the range of
> 192.168.1.100 through .149 (potentially, though only 100 through 105
> are used).  I was imagining that say, 192.168.1.150 would work for
> the one dialup user.
>
> If anyone else has experience doing this sort of thing, I could use a
> tip or two on pitfalls to watch out for.
>
> The system is a i386 (1ghz Duron/256mb RAM, gobs of IDE HD space)
> running a fairly stock RedHat 7.2 install.  I have no plans to
> upgrade any of the packages to Redhat 7.3 at this time - why fix
> something that's not broken.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg Long
> www.maneuveringspeed.com/klug/index.html
>
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