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  From: Alex Wilkinson <valex@senet.com.au>
  To  : Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>
  Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:57:41 +1030 (CST)

Re: Remotely telling (via telephone RINGs) computer to connect toisp

What u r looking for is called Xringd

Do a serach on freshmeat and you'll find it. Read the doc with it and your
set :-))


- Alex 

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Mark Phillips wrote:

> I have heard that it is possible to remotely tell your computer to
> connect to your isp in a manner something like the following:
> 
> 1. You ring your home telephone number, waiting for two rings and then
> putting the phone down.
> 
> 2. Your computer is listening for rings, and if it counts precisely
> two of them, it takes this as a signal that it should connect to the
> isp.
> 
> 3. Your computer dials up the isp and makes a ppp connection.
> 
> 
> This would be very handy if you are away from home and you want to
> have access to your machine over the internet.  You just "ring up your
> computer" and tell it to start ppp.  It doesn't even have to answer
> the phone to get the message so it doesn't cost a phone call!
> 
> The question is, how to do it?
> 
> I had heard that this could be done using mgetty.  But I have been
> reading a bit of mgetty documentation and can't see any mention of
> this application.  Has anyone heard of this or whether mgetty can be
> used for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark.
> 
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