wvdial via telnet does not work anymore

Hello,

I recently upgraded from SuSE Linux 7.2 to 9.2.

My Linux box is connected to the Internet and setup
to forward into a home LAN.

I want to be able to not login locally, but via telnet only,
then start a dial-up connection.

There seem to have been changes, although I can dial-in
with wvdial via telnet to the Linux box, I cannot access any
Internet services from within my LAN. This had worked without
problems in 7.2.

When I log in locally on the Linux box and start kinternet
from KDE, everything works just fine, I can receive mail
and browse the WWW from the LAN box.
Looking at the log output from kinternet, it seems to me
that wvdial is (now?) somehow 'embedded' in something else.

Any ideas what may be wrong or to how start wvdial via telnet
such that I can leave the Linux box in the corner without logging in
locally?

Thanks a lot.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Oliver Heidelbach

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On 10 Dec 2004 20:45:47 GMT, Oliver Heidelbach <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently upgraded from SuSE Linux 7.2 to 9.2.
>
> My Linux box is connected to the Internet and setup
> to forward into a home LAN.
>
> I want to be able to not login locally, but via telnet only,
> then start a dial-up connection.
>
> There seem to have been changes, although I can dial-in
> with wvdial via telnet to the Linux box, I cannot access any
> Internet services from within my LAN. This had worked without
> problems in 7.2.
>
> When I log in locally on the Linux box and start kinternet
> from KDE, everything works just fine, I can receive mail
> and browse the WWW from the LAN box.
> Looking at the log output from kinternet, it seems to me
> that wvdial is (now?) somehow 'embedded' in something else.
>
> Any ideas what may be wrong or to how start wvdial via telnet
> such that I can leave the Linux box in the corner without logging in
> locally?

If you properly configured the dialup connection in YaST, you should be
able to connect using cinternet from telnet (which is a console version of
kinternet). It is a bit more complicated than just clicking on kinternet
icon in X. See 'man cinternet'.

Of course ssh is more secure than telnet (PuTTY is a Windows ssh client).
And you have to have /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 properly configured for
your LAN to access internet through it.

(E-Mail Removed) (David Efflandt) schrieb/wrote:

> On 10 Dec 2004 20:45:47 GMT, Oliver Heidelbach <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently upgraded from SuSE Linux 7.2 to 9.2.
> >
[...]
> > Any ideas what may be wrong or to how start wvdial via telnet
> > such that I can leave the Linux box in the corner without logging in
> > locally?
>
> If you properly configured the dialup connection in YaST, you should be
> able to connect using cinternet from telnet (which is a console version of
> kinternet). It is a bit more complicated than just clicking on kinternet
> icon in X. See 'man cinternet'.
>

Thanks a lot. Successfully connected while I am writing this.
Problem solved.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Oliver Heidelbach

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