Re: newbie networking
The way I solved this on my home network, was setting up apache (Good
excuse for doing this and getting some experience with web-servers).
Then I created a cgi-script that gave computers on the local network the
opportunity to dial and hangup. (And ofcourse it told me the current
status (online/offline).
This solution works very well for me, since I don't need anything fancy
on the client computers. Just a normal web-browser.
Writing the cgi-script wasn't very hard. First I played with php and
made a working solution there. Then later a friend of mine who had
adopted the same solution made a much better one in perl, so I copied
his.
To make this work, you have to either give the user apache runs as
permissions to the dialup interface, or run the dial/hangup commands
using sudo.
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Alf B Lervåg
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> I am just beginning to learn about networking and have a couple of
> questions I hope someone can help me with or point me in the right
> direction. I have just setup a small ethernet and is basically functioning.
> The server has a modem connection to the internet, and I have ipmasq setup
> and running on it. The user box is able to connect to the internet without
> any problem, provided that the server box is dialed in and connected.
>
> I would like to be able to have the user box be able to make the dialup
> connection using the modem on the server. Can this be done with a minimum
> of security risk? What else do I need to configure to make this happen?:
> enable login and shell services in the /etc/inetd.conf file, modify
> /etc/hosts.allow, etc. on the server.
>
> Using potato on server and unstable on user box, kernel 2.2.17, ipmasq on
> server.
>
> I am trying to learn, and learn how to do this correctly. Thanks in advance
> any help/pointers. RTFM is fine if you can tell me which FM/section to
> read.
>
> mheyes
>
>
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