From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 20:25:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8E737B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eurus.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2B243EAF for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leth@primus.ca) Received: from dialin-152-135.tor.primus.ca ([216.254.152.135]) by eurus.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 1821IB-0007vm-0A; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:25:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:25:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt X-X-Sender: leth@lethargic.dyndns.org To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Wilkinson,Alex" Subject: Re: PPP In-Reply-To: <20021017112407.A44296-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Message-ID: <20021016231644.Q85480-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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