hi,
a friend wants to connect to his office from his factory and other locations. In the old days I used to fit a dialup modem and he would dial in to his office machine - how is it done now? Do dialup modems still exist?
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.orgwrote:
hi,
a friend wants to connect to his office from his factory and other locations. In the old days I used to fit a dialup modem and he would dial in to his office machine - how is it done now? Do dialup modems still exist?
Yes, they still do, but probably with the exception of command line ssh or maybe lynx/links, i dont think there are any applications left that will really be usable on a modem link :P Still, i see so many brand new laptop models that still have a modem port, almost makes me want to cry.....
In todays world, you use the internet, with static/on-demand vpn's, dynamic DNS hostnames and/or ssh tunnels to get secure access into a location.
Rajeev
P.S. - While ssh may be usable, the latency will probably kill you, esp when you are using the backspace key..... when do you stop :D
-- regards Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
hi,
a friend wants to connect to his office from his factory and other locations. In the old days I used to fit a dialup modem and he would dial in to his office machine - how is it done now? Do dialup modems still exist?
Use ssh? And use something like no-ip[1] or dyndns[2] if the problem is with dynamic IP.
1. http://www.no-ip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html 2. http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:06 +0530, Rajeev R. K. wrote:
In todays world, you use the internet, with static/on-demand vpn's, dynamic DNS hostnames and/or ssh tunnels to get secure access into a location.
some of his factories are in remote locations - internet is not feasable
Rajeev
P.S. - While ssh may be usable, the latency will probably kill you, esp when you are using the backspace key..... when do you stop :D
ok - will try to resurect an old modem - I have a lot of them lying around. I have an adsl modem - wonder if that would do the trick?
2010/12/16 Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
some of his factories are in remote locations - internet is not feasable
If there is cable TV, if there is telephone - Internet ought to be available. Speak to these providers?
ok - will try to resurect an old modem - I have a lot of them lying around. I have an adsl modem - wonder if that would do the trick?
ADSL modems typically require a device called a DSLAM at the other end.
On the other hand, if telephone is available, ISDN might be too. BSNL, Reliance, Airtel all offer DSL/ISDN all over India (for varying definitions of "all over India").
Binand
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.orgwrote:
some of his factories are in remote locations - internet is not feasable
Do these factories have GSM / CDMA access?
-Shamit
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 00:40 +0530, Shamit Verma wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.orgwrote:
some of his factories are in remote locations - internet is not
feasable
Do these factories have GSM / CDMA access?
at times
On Thursday 16 December 2010 18:20:58 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:06 +0530, Rajeev R. K. wrote:
In todays world, you use the internet, with static/on-demand vpn's, dynamic DNS hostnames and/or ssh tunnels to get secure access into a location.
some of his factories are in remote locations - internet is not feasable
Rajeev
P.S. - While ssh may be usable, the latency will probably kill you, esp when you are using the backspace key..... when do you stop :D
ok - will try to resurect an old modem - I have a lot of them lying around. I have an adsl modem - wonder if that would do the trick?
ADSL wont work. You have to use the pots v33 /v56 modem. About 3 years ago dialup modems were priced at approx Rs.5000. The adsl costed Rs.3450.
Greetings,
On 12/16/10, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:06 +0530, Rajeev R. K. wrote:
In todays world, you use the internet, with static/on-demand vpn's, dynamic DNS hostnames and/or ssh tunnels to get secure access into a location.
One can check for free dydns protocol based server hosted and integrated with the local dns and a namespace if possible.
3G should be investigated I guess...
Shout enough at BSNL/Docomo and the usual culprits...
Regards,
Rajagopal
On Thursday 16 December 2010 04:40 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
hi,
a friend wants to connect to his office from his factory and other locations. In the old days I used to fit a dialup modem and he would dial in to his office machine - how is it done now? Do dialup modems still exist?
Just for knowledge sake, could you give some idea of how he would use the modem to dial into his office machine? What was the login type and how was the data accessed?
On Thursday 16 December 2010 06:20 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
ok - will try to resurect an old modem - I have a lot of them lying around. I have an adsl modem - wonder if that would do the trick?
An ADSL modem cannot substitute a 56 Kbps fax/dialup modem. They are two different technologies. You could lookup a D-Link dealer to know if they still market the ext. dialup modems.
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 20:04 +0530, Rony wrote:
On Thursday 16 December 2010 04:40 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
hi,
a friend wants to connect to his office from his factory and other locations. In the old days I used to fit a dialup modem and he would dial in to his office machine - how is it done now? Do dialup modems still exist?
Just for knowledge sake, could you give some idea of how he would use the modem to dial into his office machine? What was the login type and how was the data accessed?
huh? This was in the 90s which was the way we communicated then - I forget exactly how we used to do it, but there were some scripts that would set the modem to receive calls and also dial out. So he dials in from his house modem to his office modem, there is a lot of handshaking and a ppp connection is established. Once that is there, all other methods like ssh, mail, http are available.
On Monday 20 December 2010 07:05:22 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 20:04 +0530, Rony wrote:
On Thursday 16 December 2010 04:40 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
hi,
a friend wants to connect to his office from his factory and other locations. In the old days I used to fit a dialup modem and he would dial in to his office machine - how is it done now? Do dialup modems still exist?
Just for knowledge sake, could you give some idea of how he would use the modem to dial into his office machine? What was the login type and how was the data accessed?
huh? This was in the 90s which was the way we communicated then - I forget exactly how we used to do it, but there were some scripts that would set the modem to receive calls and also dial out. So he dials in from his house modem to his office modem, there is a lot of handshaking and a ppp connection is established. Once that is there, all other methods like ssh, mail, http are available.
you setup a ras server on one end with autoanswer on the modem (ats0=1, atw). Then dial in from the other side. In the 80s we used ymodem/zmodem/kermit on dos. Afair kermit has all the stuff for point to point dialin.
Now you just use ppp - the same ppp that you use for dialout and the modem in auto answer. check the man page for ppp.
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 01:22 AM, jtd wrote:
you setup a ras server on one end with autoanswer on the modem (ats0=1, atw). Then dial in from the other side. In the 80s we used ymodem/zmodem/kermit on dos. Afair kermit has all the stuff for point to point dialin.
Now you just use ppp - the same ppp that you use for dialout and the modem in auto answer. check the man page for ppp.
Thanks for the info.
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Binand Sethumadhavan -
jtd -
Kenneth Gonsalves -
Mehul Ved -
Rajagopal Swaminathan -
Rajeev R. K. -
Rony -
Shamit Verma