RE: [Sheflug] Dialling Internet on Demand

["David Morris" <nospam [at] allvac.co.uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> [mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Eric E Moore
> Sent: 28 August 2001 10:14
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Dialling Internet on Demand
>
>
> >>>>> "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..

On-demand dialling is now built in to pppd. Check out the man pages for pppd
(you used to have to use diald in the olden days :-)


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David Morris
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