xsprite@bigfoot.com wrote:
pppd will do this, look at the holdoff, persist and demand options.
Yup got it doing that now... well without holdoff can't see why I'd want that...
In the options part of /etc/named.conf add dialup yes; eg: options { directory "/var/named"; recursion yes; dialup yes; };
Cheers muchly!
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Not ideal though, I still need a way to initiate PPP from a Windoze client without telnetting in and running my script...
Set up ip_masq'ing/nat, demand dialing with pppd and start/stop pppd from a crontab, configure windows to use the nix box as a dns and gateway.
Masq wWorking... but why would I want to start/stop pppd from cron? why not put it in a bootup rc somewhere?
BTW, which bootup rc file should it be, and which one is currently setting my /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to 0 every restart?
It would be useful if there was a tool to tell Windoze when the link had gone up/down so that ICQ would take itself offline nicely and GetRight would stop/start its downloads...? Some sort of fake DUN tool?
Cheers muchly Neil
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