Re: masqdialer
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anyone gotten masqdialer to work with a Debian dist? I currently have
> > a debian box set up to do IP masquerading, and I use the Debian pon and
> > poff to start and stop the PPP dial-up connection.
> >
> > First of all, is there an easy way to make pon and poff executable by
> > everyone? (Or maybe only certain people?)
> >
> > And is there then an easy way to just have masqdialer use the Debian pon
> > and poff?
> >
>
> I don't know what masqdialer is but an alternative way to do what I think
> you want is with diald. This is described in a couple of mini howto's and
> is, if I dare make this claim, sort of the standard way to asynchronously
> access a dialup line without having to manually establish the connection
> (with pon, for example). I have a small network at home with a Debian box
Unfortunately, we only have a single phone line in my apartment, so
manually establishing the connection is exactly what I want. I don't want
random packets causing my modem to dial out. :)
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