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dio
2006-02-22, 08:53 AM CST
Here is my dilema

I need to connect a remote location to my network, the location is only a couple of miles away and DSL or any other broadband service isn't available there. I want to make a bridge to connect the remote location back to my network using dial up modems. Should I set up RAS on my Linux server and have a machine on the remote network make the connection? All of the machines at the remote site are windows.... My Linux server is Fedora Core 4, now X Windows, I currently run it as a PDC (Samba+LDAP). In the fall I am setting up 900Mhz antennas to bridge it but I need something to get me by till then.

Thanks for any help,

David

dio
2006-02-27, 12:05 PM CST
Let me provide a little more information, I have now setup a Fedora Core 4 box on the other end, so now I have a Fedora Core 4 box on either end and both of them have a v.92 modem in them. I want to be able to connect them at the highest speed possible, zmodem? or however I can do it. I have a phone system here so they would only be going through that. IS there a 3rd party software that does this or something built into Fedora for this??? Any help or if anyone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated!

Sarthan
2006-02-27, 01:09 PM CST
There is this program called 'wvdial' that can handle dialup with modems.

Taken from the manpage :

DESCRIPTION
wvdial is an intelligent PPP dialer, which means that it dials a modem
and starts PPP in order to connect to the Internet. It is something
like the chat(8) program, except that it uses heuristics to guess how
to dial and log into your server rather than forcing you to write a
login script.