From: Elmar Gerwalin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Larry Platzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Best way to control "ppp-on- demand" ? Copies to: leaflist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:13:02 +0200 > Hello, > > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 18:03, Larry Platzek wrote: > > > Why not use pppd to do demand dialing? > > I already have that, but it starts even when I don't want it > E.g. Windows wants to get online without a user action and I want to stop it. > > What are you trying to prevent by having todo pon and poff by ssh? > > If you are just trying to limit what time of day pppd is online then you > > can use a cron job for turning ppp on and off (two events in cron table). > > Time limit is set to a few minutes, but that has some disadvantages: > - when I want to stay offline , my system sometimes doesn't (see above) > - when I'm "thinking" too long in front of my system, pppd goes offline > > Maybe this helps understanding my problem. > > Bye > Elmar > Hello Elmar, I used on a "safe" private network for exactly this situation the routerst.lrp this is a very small webserver (1-2 Kb) that must be run as root, and that can execute commands on the webserver. on calling a certain page ifdown ppp0 was executed, on an calling another ifup ppp0 was called. unfortunately the link http://www.digitech.org/~tjunkie/routerst is dead If you are interested, mail me , I have a version somewhere around. Regards grüsse nach Kaiserslautern Eric Wolzak member of the bering crew. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
