Paul Schmidt wrote:
>
> 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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hey paul,
i use exactly the same set up in a lot of my servers. to make sendmail
run the mail queue, plop a "sendmail -q" command into
"/etc/ppp/ip-up.local". fetchmail and sendmail work ok with diald, but
you might have a problem with _every_ email sent bringing up the
connection. you need to get sendmail to use a mail relay, and think that
relay is "expensive" -- if you need more help, mail me, i'll drop you
the necessary configs.
as an aside, if you only want www connections for your win95 machines,
i'd recommend running apache with proxy_module. it's easy to set up, can
use your ISP's www-cache, acts as a LAN-local www-cache for _all_ your
win95 clients, and gives you intranet facilities to boot. all that
should make your 56K connection bearable with a couple of users (i've
had firms with 5/6 employees on a 56K line surfing ok, although here in
the UK surf speed is expected to be slow-ish ;)
give me a shout if you need more help.
cheers,
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:D_ima
Dima Nemchenko
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