I have a satellite (DirecPC) based system with dial return (i.e. phone
line). Everything now works fine under Linux but I'd like to add
functionality similiar to that offered by the diald package. Most of the
documentation for diald is more than four years old. Is anyone still
using it ? Are there better packages for allowing users on a local lan to
control a dial-up connection ?

Tony

Tony writes:
> Are there better packages for allowing users on a local lan to control a
> dial-up connection ?

Use pppd's 'demand' option.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:54:43 -0600, John Hasler wrote:

> Tony writes:
>> Are there better packages for allowing users on a local lan to control a
>> dial-up connection ?
>
> Use pppd's 'demand' option.

I have. But that does not give me the ability for remote machines on the
LAN to monitor connections status and bring the link up manually when
required.

Tony

Water Wingz writes:
> But [demand] does not give me the ability for remote machines on the LAN
> to monitor connections status...

Pppstatus or pload in a remote xterm.

> ...bring the link up manually when required.

Ping. But why is bringing the link up manually required?
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin

Water Wingz wrote:

> I have a satellite (DirecPC) based system with dial return (i.e. phone
> line). Everything now works fine under Linux but I'd like to add
> functionality similiar to that offered by the diald package. Most of the
> documentation for diald is more than four years old. Is anyone still
> using it ? Are there better packages for allowing users on a local lan to
> control a dial-up connection ?
>
> Tony

Probably you want to hangup the connection (otherwise you do not need to
dial-up since the "demand" option is doing it's job perfectly). Well if
that's your case, try the "filter" option. I suppose that you can use
something similar (or your firewall) to filter the dial-up procedure (in my
case for example, the default firewall drops every package that is to
routed to 80, BUT after the dial-up procedure I use my "normal" firewall).
Hoped that I helped you.
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Peter Tselios