Re: [TCLUG:9900] Linux Router Project questions

["Clayton T. Fandre" <cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org>]

You can do exactly that with any Linux distribution using IP
Masquerading and diald. The newest pppd supports dial-on-demand, but
from my experience diald is easier to control what brings your link up
and down. Here are some URL's:

http://members.home.net/ipmasq/
http://diald.unix.ch/
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/TrinityOS.wri

Clay

Robert Sinland wrote:
> 
>   What I would like to be able to do here is have a box of some type with
> a NIC and a modem in it that would dial up to the net on demand, and allow
> the rest of my boxes (different shades of windows) to be able to see the net.
> 
>   I was looking into the LRP project, and it _looks_ like that might work,
> doesn't really
> say for sure one way or the other from what I have read of the FAQ so far.
>   What I have been trying the past week or so is a Win 99 box running WinProxy,
> and
> well it works to a point it's cludgy, hangs the modem up at random times, dials
> out
> when I don't want it to etc.
>   I was wondering if any of you had come up with any soulutions for what I
> gather
> could be a fairly common need such as this.
> Thank's for any info or ideas,
> RS
> 
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Clay Fandre
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Twin Cities Linux Users Group
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