start ppp-dialup by calling vgetty (either dtmf or detecting number of rings) ?

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Gert Doering wrote:
> > Would it be possible to avoid the cost of a phone call
> > by detecting the number of incoming calls ?
> It would be possible, but integration into mgetty would be SO ugly that
> I'm not willing to do it.

I understand that. It was just an idea :-)
I think, I will try to use the dtmf.sh to do that dialin stuff.

> A better, because much more reliable, approach is to use an ISDN phone
> line and evaluate caller ID / destination MSN.

:o) Yes, but I can´t afford an ISDN line at the moment.
If Zyxel would implement CLIP to the 2864 (analog) Firmware, I could 
try to use Caller ID, but I don´t think they will do me that 
favour :-(

Ciao, Bjørn
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