Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:33:52 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org> Cc: Steven Looman <fsteevie@dds.nl>, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: turning on isplink via another computer Message-ID: <200101190933.f0J9XrT05264@night-porter.duskware.de> In-Reply-To: <20010117211536.A8348@beverly.kleinbus.org> "from Ignatios Souvatzis at Jan 17, 2001 09:15:36 pm"
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> Well... I don't quite understand the difference between "any of your users > can cause any amount of phone bills" and "any of your users can cause any > amount of phone bills"... In an environment with lots of Win9x machines it's nearly impossible to quiet down them appropriately. They will cause random nameserver lookups with bogus names every few minutes. Of course Unix machines don't do that if configured appropriately. And even NT/Win2K machines can be configured to be well behaved. So the difference is: allow your users to intentionally cause bills when ever they like vs. allow them to cause this unintentionally. What I did was replace the link to the browser on the desktop by my program, which spawned the browser after voting the connection up, waited for the browser process to finish and then vote the connection down. This way you could even start a download, close the browser and after the download finished the process would terminate and the connetion eventually be disconnected. Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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