Galois fermat wrote: > 1) Whenever the user send mail to local user, the sendmail initiate > the connection to the internet. The modem dialed to our ISP. (By right > it should not since the mail will not route to internet). So where is > the part that i should comment out in order for the sendmail to refer > to inside. No outside. Currently, i did not modify the sendmail.cf > file. I just leave it on default. This is probably a DNS lookup. Are both forward and reverse DNS set up on a local DNS server? > 2) If i want to use kernald to load PPP instead of using diald, where > should i and how should i make such a way that when the PPP dial on > demand dial to the ISP when the user want to do surfing. Which part i > should configure? You should probably use diald instead of kerneld's request-route feature. > 3) The surfing is very slow. (by sharing a 33.6K modem) I was told > that the performance of MS Proxy server with 33.6K modem is quite > good(from user himself). So is there anyway that i can make this linux > PPP dial on demand server have a comparable performance with MS Proxy > server? I need to use some proxy stuff? squid? or something else? A proxy (e.g. squid) won't speed up the connection itself. It may provide some benefits by storing frequently accessed pages. The overall gain depends upon the proportion of requests which can be satisfied from the cache. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
