Chris, There's no way to do this with just the pipeline. Putting a modem into the linux machine is probably your best bet. If you get a voice modem, you can use vgetty and some fancy scripting to get a menu system that will allow you do perform various tasks via telephone, including initiating a connection that will cause your pipeline to connect. If you need access to your home system from work, I'd suggest that you leave the conneciton up 24/7, though this might not be ideal where you're at. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com ** [mailto:owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com]On Behalf Of Chris Green ** Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:31 AM ** To: ascend-users at bungi.com ** Subject: Re: (ASCEND) This list ** ** ** On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 03:10:15PM -0500, Troy Settle wrote: ** > ** > How about this? ** > ** > Pipeline 75 ** > External modem ** > ** > run a phone line from the POTS port on the pipeline to the ** modem. Then run ** > a serial cable from the modem to the console port on the pipeline. ** > ** > Dial in, then tell the pipeline to initiate a call. ** > ** That assumes that I have a modem at the remote end, which I don't. ** ** ** > An easier way, would be to configure both ends of the ISDN ** connection to ** > autodial when they sense any traffic. ** > ** The remote end doesn't have ISDN either, it has a permanent high ** speed link to the Internet. ** ** ** Let me explain a little more. From work I'd like to be able to wake ** up my home network and get it to connect to the Internet so that I ** can then telnet into it (for example). At work I have a Sun Ultra ** and a PC on my desk both with permanent fast connections to the ** Internet, there are no modems or ISDN TAs or anything like that ** around the place. I do of course have a telephone on my desk. ** ** Thus the requirement is that a phone call to a specific number (I ** have MSN on my ISDN at home, thus there are 8 numbers) should get the ** Linux machine at home (which is always on) to try and connect which ** will wake up the Pipeline. ** ** This can be done with a modem on the Linux box and a script which is ** run when an incoming call is detected but I wondered if there was ** some more direct way of doing it with the Pipeline. ** ** -- ** Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk) ** Home: chris at isbd.co.uk Work: cgreen at bcs.org.uk ** WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/ ** ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ ** To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com ** To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq> ** ** ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq>