----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 6:18 PM
Subject: making demand dialing NOT available at certain times of the day.
> I have 3 linux boxes and 2 windows 98se boxes networked together. On
one
> linux box I have RH7 with NAT configured and demand dialing.
> What I would like to do is make the demand dailing not available from
6:30am
> to 10am M-F.
>
> I have to do this because of the windows boxes and I need my phone line
> available those times.
Keep in mind that I am a newbie.
Wouldn't setting up two cron jobs do the trick?
at 6:30 Mon-Fri run stop pppd (with whatever script you use -
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-ppp?)
at 10:00 Mon-Fri start it up again.
As long as pppd isn't running, nothing will be able to dial the phone.
Note that this solution may break other things - if you have an
application that attempts to dial out during the blackout period it will
get a destination host unreachable error because your default route
doesn't work. That may or may not be a problem when that same application
wants to dial out again at noon.
HTH,
James
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