You may install "diald" in the server machine. When the server detects any request to the WAN from your LAN, it will dial outside and connect both networks. As any Linux application, diald is widely configurable. You may tell diald to hang up your modem after "n" minutes of inactivity according to your phone pulses policy. And, you may configure it to run as a daemon, "sleeping" or "working" at different hours if you want to restrict internet access according to your local time. Hope this helps. -- J. M. Albores Paul Charsley wrote: > > We have set up an Internal network to connect to our ISP via a ppp link. We > use IP masquerade so that all the Windows 95 machines on the internal > network can access the connection. At present we manually set up the > connection using a ppp-on script. Is it possible to initialize ppp > automatically when the first outgoing traffic for the link arrives? It would > also be ideal to be able to shut down the link when there is no traffic for > a specified time. Is this also possible? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
