Recently my ISP got mad at me for leaving my computer connected all the time and
I was forced to go to a dial on demand set-up. This is no problem when I am at
home and need to connect, but when I am out and about I have no way to get to
my computer without calling home and having someone ping or something. Anyway,
I thought it would be cool to have a program, probably started by the ip-down
script, that would listen to the modem and when it detected the ring it would
answer and quickly hang up, next ping or something to get the network up, then
exit. Then when the internet connection timed out and disconnected, the ip-down
script would start it again and wait for the call. I guess that for connecting
manually while sitting at the machine, you could tell the program to exit in the
ip-up script. This setup would probably only be useful for people with a line
dedicated to their machine that they can't stay connected on all the time.
Anyway, I was just looking for some thoughts on how to implement this. I am a
novice C programmer at best and any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Scott Garner (aka Mr_Fab)
Linux: Opening Doors And Shattering Windows
Linux@Home Is Still Looking For A Home
