Hello list,
I am using the old diald rpm tha came with RH 6.0, 0.16 something. Here is
the general plan:
Some request is made to the internet, the trigger is most likely going to be
either a mail request with fetchmail, which would be a cron job, or a Win9x
workstation wanting to go on line. At this point diald should notice the
request and wake up ppp. During the ppp wakeup, it runs sendmail to toss
any outgoing mail along the line, this uses the new ppp connection.
If the connection is opened by fetchmail, then once the mail has been
retrieved, and sendmail has finished sending, then the connection should
die. If the connection was opened by a workstation, then it should stay
alive until the workstation has finished.
Does anyone use this kind of setup? Any ideas on what the diald.conf should
look like, do diald and sendmail/fetchmail get along together? How about
the Win boxes, anything special needed there, they will use ipchains so the
IP addresses will be in one of the available areas. There are two Win95
boxes, if they both want the internet at the same time, they should play
nice and share the 56K connection, I know this is dog slow, but I haven't
picked a high speed provider yet.
When I do pick a high speed, leaning towards ADSL via PPPoE at this point;
my local cable company hasn't managed to get much past 14 channels without
one of them looking like January percipitation, in Nunavit. I can't see how
they could get Internet service that is much better.
I know there is a lot here, but just some Saturday morning ramblings, time
for another coffee......
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