At one time, I used something similar to this. What I would do is dial the modem and let it ring a certain number of times (say 2 or 3), wait 10 or 15 seconds and then dial it again for another ring or two. If it saw that pattern, it would connect to my ISP and then email my IP address to me at work. I don't recall exactly what package I used to do this, but it may have been xringd. It hasn't been worked on for more than two years, but maybe it doesn't need it. I thought there might be something else, but I can't find it right now. HTH, Eric On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 11:00:59PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: > I am one of those poor, hapless dial-up folks who don't have a 24/7, static > ip connectiion to the Net. However, occasions have arisen where I would like > to access a file on my box at home when I am elsewhere. Once, long ago, I > thought I saw a HOWTO that described how to set up something like mgetty so > that I could, from a remote phone, dial my home phone; after a certain number > of rings, the modem would kick in with voice mail (it has voice mail > capabilities, I just have not gotten around to setting it up) and start the > usual "Please leave a message" shpeal. I would then punch in couple of > numbers as a password, which would instruct the computer to first disconnect > the line, wait a couple of seconds for the line to clear (the modem doesn't > seem to disconnect instantaneously, at least with PPP), then dial-up my ISP, > wait until it connects, and then on connect it would email me the dynamic ip > for me to connect to. Has anyone done something like this or know where I can > find out how to do it? > TIA, > :Peter > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >