RE: newbie networking
Could I offer another option.
You could use pppd and a chat script to handle the dialing then put demand
in ppp options. This will have the same affect as the diald.
I myself have this setup so that after idle (120seconds) the connection
hangs up. Have this with an good ipchains script and you should have a good
setup.
However from what I have read from the first Email, are you wanting to use
the deivce directly much like a CDROM drive on a network.?
Garry Robertson.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Furr [SMTP:furrm@kenyon.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:49 PM
> To: Brian Russo
> Cc: mheyes@lincolnfp.com; debian-firewall@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: newbie networking
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> 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
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