Dialup-related software¶

Apart from software modems themselves, there are some other software tools for dialup networking.

Mgetty¶

Website: http://mgetty.greenie.net/

As of 2023, mgetty is still maintained. There does not seem to be a browsable git archive, but the repository can be cloned in the following way:

git clone git://github.greenie.net/mgetty/

It is packaged in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/sid/mgetty, packaging in Alpine is TODO: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/15625

WvDial¶

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WvDial

The WvDial project was marked as archived on the GitHub upstream. An active repository is hosted on the Osmocom infrastructure: https://gitea.osmocom.org/retronetworking/wvdial

Current open issue are the downstream patches in Debian: https://gitea.osmocom.org/retronetworking/wvdial/issues/5

The original website is still available on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20110504183753/http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvDial