Yes. It can run as a daemon and in order to get my Linux-unfriendly customer to connect their server to the Internet, they just do a ping to an external IP address and it connects them.
Regards,
Martyn
----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Brown" laurie@brownowl.com To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [Alug] diald
Martyn Drake wrote:
I'd highly recommend using WVDial, which is a more intelligent dialer.
You
only need to plonk in your username, password and the ISP telephone
number
and it'll work out the rest. I've used it very successfully for a
customer
who has a dial-up Linux mail and web proxy server.
Regards,
MartynDumb question time, but does wvdial now do d-o-d?
Cheers, Laurie.
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