[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is just a guess, but it's probably not a diald issue, but an IP
> masquerading issue. The only thing I can think of (although, I'm not
> very knowledgeable in the area) would be to write a little daemon that
> would listen for requests from the Win95 machine to effectively bring
> up/shut down dial-up networking. It would do this by using ipfwadm (or
> whatever you're using to control your forwarding/masquerading) to block
> traffic to/from that machine. You would then have to create a "client"
> for the Win95 machine that would send these requests to the daemon on
> the Linux box. You probably could do it fairly easy in Perl if you
> know it. Otherwise, Java is another easy choice. I don't know that it
> will keep diald from dialing, though. You probably could set up
> ipfwadm to keep it from forwarding packets to the interface used by
> diald, though.
>
> Anyway, that's just an idea.
It's the same idea I had, I just would like to know if someone has a
working solution.
Your right it is not diald related, but I think it would be nice if I could use
the daemon to block the link or force the link up.
>
>
> Good luck,
>
> Lyle
>
Richard.
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