[swlug] PPP dial-out connections

[Tim Bonnell]

At home, I connect from my Linux box over a modem to my ISP (uklinux.net),
but I also need on occasion to connect to my work servers for out-of-hours
support problems.

I use WVDIAL to make the connection to the outside world, and bring up PPP,
and have even managed to configure it so that I can either type:
# wvdial isp
# wvdial work

and all is well. Now, when I dial work, I'd like to configure things so that
my servers will call-back, so that the call charges are paid for by work,
rather than me. I know that PPP can be configure to negotiate call-back
(though I've not attempted it yet), but the real stumbling block seems to be
the inability of wvdial to tell PPP that sometimes it wants call-back, but
when contacting 'isp' to stick with dial-out. Can WVDIAL be configured to do
this, or do I need to look at a different solution?


Regards,	Tim

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