Re: [Sheflug] Re: Dial on demand scripts

["Damien J Dye" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep they can

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Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Re: Dial on demand scripts


> On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 12:16, Damien J Dye wrote:
> > there is no wvdial.dod only smpppd and that only allows the local
machine to
> > connect on demand not the network.
>
> If you bring up the connection on demand from the local machine, are
> other machines on the LAN then able to access the internet? If not, the
> problem isn't with the demand script at all - ip forwarding won't be set
> up correctly.
>
> If they can connect to the LAN, have a look at the man page for smpppd
> and see how it says it detects network activity - it might be that it
> blocks traffic from the local LAN by default to prevent the link being
> brought up accidentally (I don't have the smpppd software installed, or
> I would look for you).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>
>
>
>
>


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