On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > > > > Has anyone gotten masqdialer to work with a Debian dist? I currently have > > a debian box set up to do IP masquerading, and I use the Debian pon and > > poff to start and stop the PPP dial-up connection. > > > > First of all, is there an easy way to make pon and poff executable by > > everyone? (Or maybe only certain people?) > > > > And is there then an easy way to just have masqdialer use the Debian pon > > and poff? > > > > I don't know what masqdialer is but an alternative way to do what I think > you want is with diald. This is described in a couple of mini howto's and > is, if I dare make this claim, sort of the standard way to asynchronously > access a dialup line without having to manually establish the connection > (with pon, for example). I have a small network at home with a Debian box
Unfortunately, we only have a single phone line in my apartment, so manually establishing the connection is exactly what I want. I don't want random packets causing my modem to dial out. :)
