Hello, Sam:

<SNIP everything else but this one issue that sam addressed>

> I'd like to figure out how to allow someone on the network the ability to
> > shutdown the firewall/gateway without having to login to the system (I'm
> > worried they'll freak out at having to look at a command-line), but that
can
> > wait, unless someone has a suggestion.
> >
> Just press the power off button, the system will fsck the filesystem
> automatically when it rebooted next time.
>
> Sam

Thanks for the suggestion. I would welcome any others' thoughts on this.
With all due respect to you, sam, I find this solution to be inelegant. If,
on the LAN-side, someone could, say, shutdown the dial-up gateway from a Web
page, that would be great.

If you have any thoughts on how I might go about configuring an on-demand
dialup gateway/firewall using OpenBSD, again, I would appreciate any input.

Best regards,

Jim