Re: cu program?
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:29, Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have finally built a small home lan and want to leave my modem
> connected to the server machine. I found a HOWTO on this subject in
> the doc-linux package. The following perl script was listed as one
> method of routing pppd from one machine to the other.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> select((select(STDOUT), $| = 1)[$[]);
> select((select(STDIN), $| = 1)[$[]);
> exec 'cu -s 115200 -l /dev/ttyS0';
> die '$0: Cant exec cu: $!\n';
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> I cannot locate the cu program. Can someone point me in the right
> direction?
Jeez, uucp is, like, /totally/ 80's!
Seriously, look for diald, and put it on the modem-server. With port
forwarding enabled, it waits for all inet packets destined for outside
the LAN. If it sees such packets (i.e., someone on another box tries
to go to http://www.i-love-msft.org), then if the modem is disconnected,
it fires up pppd, and if it's on-line, it does nothing. Either way,
once a connection is made, the packets are then passed through.
Also, there is a user-configurable time-out period, so that you can
surf at leisure w/o constantly getting disconnected.
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