-On the Linux side use modemd, which is a very short perl script
+On the Linux PC you have to install a forwarding server.
+One option is to use modemd . This is a very short perl script
(also see Linux Modem sharing mini-HOWTO at
):
@@ -2800,8 +2801,9 @@ And this has to be added to /etc/inet.conf :
modemd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/modemd ttyI5
-Instead of modemd you can also use the program mserver, which has some
-additional functionality (e.g. rights based on ip address):
+
+Instead of modemd you can also use the program mserver , which has
+some additional functionality (e.g. rights based on ip address):
Additionally, you need some software on your non-ISDN computer which emulates a
@@ -2824,6 +2826,64 @@ it now offers tcp modem support, such that it will run without additional
software. Check out:
+ lan_remotedialing: How can I allow the users in my LAN to trigger
+a dial out via the ISDN card(s) in my Linux PC?
+
+
+For this you need two pieces of software. At the computer where the ISDN-line
+is connected you need to install a dial daemon . The dial daemon
+will execute any dial commands given from a dial frontend located on
+a different computer on the LAN. You have several options to choose a dial
+daemon and dial frontend.
+
+-
+At first you can use the free software
smpppd (SuSE Meta PPP
+Daemon) from SuSE as the dial daemon. smpppd gets used in the SuSE distribution
+for all ISDN, Modem and DSL connections. You can connect to smpppd locally or
+over a LAN via different dial frontends and trigger dial-out, hang-up and so
+on. The most known dial frontend is kinternet a small applet for the KDE
+Kicker. Others are the qt-only qinternet and the command line tool cinternet.
+Unfortunately there is no frontend for Windows or Mac OS available.
+
+Obviously this is the easiest way if you already have SuSE installed on the
+server, and all other involved computers are also based on Linux (installation
+of the dial frontend should not be too difficult with non-SuSE distributions).
+Some more hints:
+
+- The software is available in SuSE-Linux within the packages smpppd,
+kinternet and qinternet, see
+- In order to allow smpppd listening into the LAN change the following
+two options in /etc/smpppd.conf (see also "man smpppd.conf"):
+
+open-inet-socket = yes # (default is no)
+bind-address = <IP> # IP of the LAN-network-card of the dial in server;
+# default is listening on all network cards (!)
+
+- On the client side you can either enter the dial server via GUI or via
+/etc/smpppd-c.conf (see also "man smpppd-c.conf").
+
+-
+Another free software solution working the same way is
LineControl .
+It has a dial daemon (linesrv) which you can configure dialing different
+connections (similar to smpppd) be it ISDN, Modem, DSL or another dial-out
+connection. Dial frontends are available for Linux (one for KDE and one for
+Gnome), Windows and Java.
+Some more hints:
+
+- The software and tutorials can be found at
+
+- The config files is located at
/etc/linesrv.conf
+(the relevant configuration options are similar to that of smpppd)
+- Several dial and hang up scripts where you can define the system
+commands how to dial/hang up certain connections are below
+
/etc/linesrv/
+- In order to have the linesrv daemon running at system start of your
+server you also need to enter it in your system start configuration.
+
- On the client side you now can enter the dial server via GUI in one of
+the frontends and dial/hang up a connection configured at the server.
+
+
+