On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Adam Hewitt wrote: > Hi, > > Once I have my debian gateway up and running, I want to have it setup so > that it will NOT dial on demand. As an alternative to this I was wondering > if anyone had some hints or if it is even possible to have some sort of > script setup on a Windows desktop that when run it will telnet to the > debian box, log in (maybe with a generic username and password which only > has rights to run the pppd) and connect to the net. > > The reason that I am asking is because I am setting this up for my home > network, and my wife isn't that computer literate that I think she would be > able to do these tasks manually. > > If you have any other suggestions please let me know those as well.
a) you could just do a simple shell script menu and leave that running on the console with 3 options. 1) start internet, 2) stop internet, 3) check internet see "man bash" and look for "select". b) do a simple CGI script that calls the pon or poff command and maybe something to check if you're online, run a web server just on the internal IP address - see "Listen" and "BindAddress" in your httpd.conf or apache.conf as the case may be. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
