Re: [Sheflug] Dialling Internet on Demand

[Eric E Moore <nospam [at] shef.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Dawson <DawsonA [at] chesterfield.ac.uk> writes:

Alan> Hi all I'm sure this MUST be very easy but ...

Alan> A network of Win 98 clients with a Linux router dialling up an
Alan> ISP with PPP doing masquerading

Alan> I can make the linux box dial up manually but would prefer it to
Alan> dial up when one of the other boxes on the LAN requests a
Alan> resource not on the LAN.  Then what would be really cool is if
Alan> it would drop the line after 900 seconds or so if there was no
Alan> activity.  Any pointers or howto's out there?

Take a look at diald.  There's a howto..

  -Eric
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