The way I solved this on my home network, was setting up apache (Good excuse for doing this and getting some experience with web-servers). Then I created a cgi-script that gave computers on the local network the opportunity to dial and hangup. (And ofcourse it told me the current status (online/offline).
This solution works very well for me, since I don't need anything fancy on the client computers. Just a normal web-browser. Writing the cgi-script wasn't very hard. First I played with php and made a working solution there. Then later a friend of mine who had adopted the same solution made a much better one in perl, so I copied his. To make this work, you have to either give the user apache runs as permissions to the dialup interface, or run the dial/hangup commands using sudo. -- Alf B Lerv�g eval $(echo "echo 02x405x1|sed s/0/8/g|_ 2 m|_ x \ |_ 4 \-|_ 5 f|_ 1 \/|_ 8 r"|sed s/_/tr/g) > I am just beginning to learn about networking and have a couple of > questions I hope someone can help me with or point me in the right > direction. I have just setup a small ethernet and is basically functioning. > The server has a modem connection to the internet, and I have ipmasq setup > and running on it. The user box is able to connect to the internet without > any problem, provided that the server box is dialed in and connected. > > I would like to be able to have the user box be able to make the dialup > connection using the modem on the server. Can this be done with a minimum > of security risk? What else do I need to configure to make this happen?: > enable login and shell services in the /etc/inetd.conf file, modify > /etc/hosts.allow, etc. on the server. > > Using potato on server and unstable on user box, kernel 2.2.17, ipmasq on > server. > > I am trying to learn, and learn how to do this correctly. Thanks in advance > any help/pointers. RTFM is fine if you can tell me which FM/section to > read. > > mheyes > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
