Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:25:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: Re: PPP Message-ID: <20021016231644.Q85480-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20021017112407.A44296-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: > Question: Is there anyway to set up an Icon on a Windows box that will > dial up the > modem that's hanging off of the FreeBSD gateway. > [ssh'ing in and running ppp manually is to much of an ask for > people that want to use > a computer to actually do work ;-)]. > > Has anyone done this before. > > I know software has been written for Linux: > > http://cpwright.com/mserver/ > I don't know about your specific question, but you can tell (userland) PPP to dial only when there is traffic. This can be accomplished with the -ddial flag. That may or may not be what you want to do though. One other solution ... I know of a guy who had a modem that was always re-dialing, so he attached a light switch on his phone line, and would switch it on when he wanted his modem to connect :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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