Another Idea may be to use it with a Squid Proxy set up to ask for a password, providing your system doesn't do anything else outside browsing (i.e. external DNS Lookups), it should work...

Yet another way would be to have it dial Manually by hosting an intranet webpage with a CGI Script on the Gateway system to start and stop the dialout, the dialer can still be set to auto-disconnect after a period of inactivity, just in case you forget

Scott.

dTd wrote:

On 20 Oct 2002 15:02:01 +0200
Kent Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


lör 2002-10-19 klockan 20.16 skrev Jesse Keating:

On 19 Oct 2002 20:08:24 +0200
Kent Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

# I want my linuxbox that connects to the internet with pppd to be able
# to share the connection with my other computer running windows xp.
# I think i can manage to use masq and that stuff to share the
# connection when it is upp and running but i want to make it so that
# the other computer can "tell" my linuxbox to connect (and disconnect).
# Can some one post some information about where to read more about
# this? I have never done this before and have no clue about what to do.

I've heard you can do this with "dial-on-demand" scripts. I've never
done it though.


Well, i know i can make my system dial on demand. I have looked a little
bit in wvdial documentation but did not find much about dial on demand
but i know it should work. But i realy want the window-machine not to
make my Linuxbox dial on to internet every time it lookes up something
on the internet. I want it to pop ups some kind of "Do you realy want to
dial to the internet?" and some way to disconnect the connection from
the windows-machine. My ISP is very expensive and i do not have
broadband. :(


I saw a package on freshmeat designed to do just this, I have forgotten it's
name, but a quick search for "demand dial" should get you some results. As a
side note, you can set an idle option to pppd that will drop the connection
after a certain amount of time. Not ver helpfull but hey it's a start. :)




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