[arch-general] Single Person ISP?
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP". Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem). Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it. -Brendan Long
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP".
Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem).
Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it.
-Brendan Long
Sounds like you want to create a "modem pool". There are stuff on the internet about this. I did a quick google but I didn't have time to read them all :) You could look at RAS if that would suit you better :) Best regards Fredrik Eriksson
Do not know if it'll work, but check out
ZeroShellhttp://www.zeroshell.net/eng/
...
-- Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart
he dreams himself your master.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:44, Brendan Long
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP".
Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem).
Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it.
-Brendan Long
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP".
Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem).
Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it.
pppd will do it, you can read http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/ or similar generally you'll need to know routing and networking, pppd options and chat options. Then you need to set pppd/chat (pppd starts chat to control the modem) to wait for a RING, answer the modem, then pppd takes over and establishes the ppp session. -- damjan
On Thu 19 Nov 2009 00:44 -0700, Brendan Long wrote:
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP".
There are probably ways around that windows program requirement for the free ISPs. Years ago I was able to connect to AOL using a program called penggy.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:23, Loui Chang
There are probably ways around that windows program requirement for the free ISPs. Years ago I was able to connect to AOL using a program called penggy.
I can say from personal experience that pengy hasn't worked in over 5 years.
On Thursday 19 November 2009 01:44:06 and regarding:
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP".
Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem).
Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it.
-Brendan Long
Brendan, I have done this for years, but for the past six months the ppp package has been screwed up and will not pass the ppp session off to the dial in line. Currently, I have this as my /etc/ppp/options file with the modem on ttyS1 and the cable connection rounted through eth0: debug kdebug 7 crtscts lock modem nodetach lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 lcp-max-configure 60 lcp-restart 2 idle 600 noipx file /etc/ppp/filters asyncmap 200a0000 proxyarp login # Note there is a current dispute whether login will prevent the ppp # connection from being established on some systems. Try with and # without it and see what you get. ms-dns 192.168.6.17 ms-wins 192.168.6.17 netmask 255.255.255.0 192.168.6.17:192.168.6.11 The last good working config I had was on a suse 10.3 box. Since then nothing has worked on suse 11.0 - 11.1 or Arch. I'm still digging into the issue time permitting. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
participants (7)
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Brendan Long
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Daenyth Blank
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Damjan Georgievski
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David C. Rankin
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Fredrik Eriksson
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Loui Chang
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Thanos Zygouris