If I could make the STN-box call a program or script to "dial" I could of
course put a program there that automate this stupid login sequence but I
guess that if I select dialup STN will also assume that PPP over serial port
will be used etc that is not apropriate in this case...
Maybe a future version of STN could have support for calling some user
supplied script if there have not been any activity for a user selected
period and the user now try to do something versus the net. That would be
perfect with this kind of cases.
Sadly enough I think that this kind of "crap" from the ISPs will be more
common since they want to force us to go to there "portals" as often as
possible (I guess they dream of us using some "pay"-services, dream on I
say!).
Regards
Magnus
>From: Jim Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [STN] Adding an app?
>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:13:41 -0800
>
>Or you could do something different....
>
>(I am assuming you have a dial-up ISP, right?)
>
>What I did was take advantage of STN's "dial-on-demand" capability -
>whenever I needed to use the internet from any machine on my network, it
>would pick up the phone, do what I wanted, and hang up when I was
>finished.
>
>BTW - as telephone time is expensive (not only to you for making the
>call, but for them to mantain the CO equipment, and the RADIUS servers,
>etc. - they pay the phone company (companies) for co-locating equipment)
>and they cannot keep unlimited numbers of lines - many ISP's do this.
>(every dial-up ISP I have ever worked with, has this set up...)
>Dial-on-demand gives you the best of both worlds - it's there when you
>need it, and you do not tie up a phone line when it is not.
>
>Jim
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Given that there is room on the diskette or that I install STN on a HD
> > is there some simple way to add/start a background process of my own on
> > the STN box? I am quite a novice to linux administration etc and know
> > nothing about the specific distribution used bu STN.
> >
> > I have a really boring ISP that disconect you after som time of
> > inactivity and then you are forced to log-on using a hard to remember
> > name/password selected by them :-( and to work-around this I want to use
> >
> > a small keep-alive program that should run on the external interface.
> >
> > Any sugestions about how to go about this?
> >
> > Regards
> > Magnus
>
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