Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 21:52:44 +0000 From: Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ppp 'set filter' question Message-ID: <20000508215244.K13317@netlink.co.uk>
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I've succeeded in getting NAT working with ppp.
I haven't configured 'dial on demand' with ppp (-auto etc), as yet.
So, I have a simple network... FreeBSD serving other Windows machines,
as a gateway (do please correct me if I'm using the term gateway
incorrectly here).
What I'd like to be able to do is this :
1) give the Windows machine a simple means to determine
if the FreeBSD machine is online
2) give the Windows machine a restricted means of 'bringing the link up',
ie. connecting to the Net.
For (1) I considered configuring a simple finger client to
finger a port on the FreeBSD machine which cat-ted a "online"
or "offline". But I couldnt' find an MSDOS finger client !
I thought a simple shortcut on the Windows desktop that opened
an MSDOS box would suffice. Does this sound reasonable ?
I don't want to force users of the Windows machine to launch
a large application to find out a tincy little bit of info.
For (2), I'm unsure. I understand I can use 'set filter'.
I've read the ppp man pages, and the 'Packet Filtering' section
(and there was a hint on packet filtering in a sample ppp.conf
that came with Walnut Creek CD). I'd like to allow the
users of the Windows machines to dial-up by doing something
very definite. How do other people solve this one ?
Thanks for any useful tips.
Darren
PS. I'm /very/ impressed with this OS. Putting it lightly.
It's a lot of fun. It rocketh.
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