On 20 Oct 2002 15:02:01 +0200 Kent Nyberg <blurk@telia.com> wrote: > lör 2002-10-19 klockan 20.16 skrev Jesse Keating: > > On 19 Oct 2002 20:08:24 +0200 > > Kent Nyberg <blurk@telia.com> wrote: > > > > # I want my linuxbox that connects to the internet with pppd to be able > > # to share the connection with my other computer running windows xp. > > # I think i can manage to use masq and that stuff to share the > > # connection when it is upp and running but i want to make it so that > > # the other computer can "tell" my linuxbox to connect (and disconnect). > > # Can some one post some information about where to read more about > > # this? I have never done this before and have no clue about what to do. > > > > I've heard you can do this with "dial-on-demand" scripts. I've never > > done it though. > > > > Well, i know i can make my system dial on demand. I have looked a little > bit in wvdial documentation but did not find much about dial on demand > but i know it should work. But i realy want the window-machine not to > make my Linuxbox dial on to internet every time it lookes up something > on the internet. I want it to pop ups some kind of "Do you realy want to > dial to the internet?" and some way to disconnect the connection from > the windows-machine. My ISP is very expensive and i do not have > broadband. :( > I saw a package on freshmeat designed to do just this, I have forgotten it's name, but a quick search for "demand dial" should get you some results. As a side note, you can set an idle option to pppd that will drop the connection after a certain amount of time. Not ver helpfull but hey it's a start. :) -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
