[Gllug] Dialling the net remotley

[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:26:00PM +0100, Jo Knight wrote:
> HI Guys,
> 
> I dont know the best way to put this, but im sure I saw it on the list a few
> months back. I want to be able to kick off a ppp session to my ISP remotley.
> For example I want to dial my home number from my mobile, then when my PC
> recognises its me calling, cuts me off and then dials my ISP and starts a
> ppp session. Can this be done? Im pretty sure I saw a couple of people
> mention it on the list, so any pointers would be appreciated.

First you need to have your computer/modem understand CLI.

http://www.ainslie.org.uk/callerid/cli_faq.htm

If you don't have a CLI modem already then either get one, set up caller
ID and then mgetty+vgetty.


You can probably do it through a DTMF pin using vgetty's call_program

http://alpha.greenie.net/vgetty/readme.voice_shell.html#Custom

HTH

Paul

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