Re: newbie networking

[Mike Furr <furrm@kenyon.edu>]

two options, depending on what your needs are...

diald has the capability of "dialing on demand", so that the first
request for a web page, ftp site, whatever will trigger it to
automically dial and establish the connection.

if you want to explicitly control the connection, you need to setup a
user account on the box so that you can ssh in, and then setup sudo,
which will allow that user to execute pon/poff as root without giving
them complete root access.(as mentioned earlier)

-mike