Why not use pppd to do demand dialing? 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).
Larry Platzek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Elmar Gerwalin wrote: > Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:03:24 +0200 > From: Elmar Gerwalin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [leaf-user] Best way to control "ppp-on-demand" ? > > Hello, > I'm using a bering box with an analog modem as router from my internal network > to the LAN. > Dialing-in is done "on-demand", but in some cases it would be better to do > that manually (e.g. WinXP connects to the LAN without user interaction, maybe > my dhcp server, (will be investigated ..?) > > What's the best way to start "pon" and "poff" from remote ? > > Is "ssh router pon/poff" a good idea ? > (How should one do that best from Windows?) > > A web interface (known from i4l) would be fine.... > > Maybe you could give me some ideas... > > Bye > Elmar > -- > ======================================================== > Elmar Gerwalin , University of Kaiserslautern,Germany > Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry > and IT Service Team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0631-205-2749 > ======================================================== > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
