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How To Set Up Linux As A Dial-In Server This document describes how to attach modems to a Linux box and allow it to receive calls to connect users to the network. Its like being your own ISP (Internet Service Provider). If your Linux box is connected to the Internet, then the users will also be connected to the Internet. Your Linux box becomes a router. This is also known as RAS (Remote Access Services) in the Microsoft world. In the Linux world its called PPP (Point to Point Protocol).
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Great tutorial !
Hope to see such one for setting up a network pppoe-server gateway using freeradius, with more details
thanks alot
I too would like to see one for setting up a pppoe-server. Thanks for the great write-up!
Nice howto! However, I think you absolutely need to add (to the title, if possible) that this is a howto for redhat and its derived distributions. (Or perhaps I should say Fedora and derived distributions, since technically I think Fedora is upstream for Redhat, not the other way around.) Kudzu, for example, is used only on redhat-like systems, and e.g. Debian does not install mgetty by default but the getty from util-linux. (I assume mgetty is in the default fedora / redhat install, otherwise you should probably add that as well.)
Some of those settings are not available on new systems, is it possible to update it please??
Hello
I've tried everything from this tutorial but I've notice this error in my /var/log/messages
Jul 9 15:21:35 oldlinux mgetty[8979]: init chat failed, exiting...: Interrupted system call
Jul 9 15:21:35 oldlinux mgetty[8979]: failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyS0, pid=8979
and I tried to connect at home, but still I cannot connect to my dial-in server.please help
Is there a way to set this up going just from modem to modem and not having a Land Line Service.
The information about the Linux as a Dial-In server has been well described in this post.