On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:29, Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: > Hi, > > I have finally built a small home lan and want to leave my modem > connected to the server machine. I found a HOWTO on this subject in > the doc-linux package. The following perl script was listed as one > method of routing pppd from one machine to the other. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > #!/usr/bin/perl > select((select(STDOUT), $| = 1)[$[]); > select((select(STDIN), $| = 1)[$[]); > exec 'cu -s 115200 -l /dev/ttyS0'; > die '$0: Cant exec cu: $!\n'; > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > I cannot locate the cu program. Can someone point me in the right > direction?
Jeez, uucp is, like, /totally/ 80's! Seriously, look for diald, and put it on the modem-server. With port forwarding enabled, it waits for all inet packets destined for outside the LAN. If it sees such packets (i.e., someone on another box tries to go to http://www.i-love-msft.org), then if the modem is disconnected, it fires up pppd, and if it's on-line, it does nothing. Either way, once a connection is made, the packets are then passed through. Also, there is a user-configurable time-out period, so that you can surf at leisure w/o constantly getting disconnected. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
