RE: newbie networking

[mheyes@lincolnfp.com]

First, thanks to all who have replied with suggestions! I will try these
out this evening and, I hope, get things up and running from the client
side.

Garry, what I am trying to accomplish is to be able to start a dialup
session from my client using the a modem connected to the server. I could
run apps on the server, but it seems best to run apps on the client and not
the server.

Now, I've just got this little network I'm trying to learn with, not a
fancy corporate server or anything like that, so I could just run stuff on
the server. But, I'm trying to learn the correct way to setup a network.

So, to answer your question, I think it would be like accessing a CDROM
drive on a network. I like the idea of the session terminating after being
idle for a period of time. Could you send a copy of your chat script?

mheyes








Garry Robertson <Garry.Robertson@Red-Letter.com> on 01/30/2001 11:21:05 AM

To:   debian-firewall@lists.debian.org
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Subject:  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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> 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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