Modem emulation

calutateo · 07-02-2005, 12:47 AM

Dear all,

I teach LPI 101 and 102 courses. My students have different notebooks with winmodems in them. Some of the winmodems don't work (anyway, it would be to much work to go to linmodems.org and make every modem work).

I would like the students to practice the LPI objective "1.112.4 Configure Linux as a PPP client".

Is there a modem software emulation?
Any idea what else?

Regards, Carsten

Mara · 07-03-2005, 04:02 PM

Doable, but they have to configure a PPP server (or can connect to a server you configured). pppd can use any device, it can be also a USB connection. Everything goes as normal (like in http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue36/ali.html), only device names are different.