You can just get dialmon which works absolutley brilliantly with diald -
http://www.quaking.demon.co.uk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Jagdis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 9:53 PM
> To: Wayne Rohret
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: demand/nodemand on v0.9x
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Wayne Rohret wrote:
>
> > how does one send up commands to the newer versions of diald,
>
> You can use signals, you can use a named pipe (with the fifo
> option), or you can use a TCP connection (using the tcpport
> option). The dctrl that comes with diald knows about both
> fifo and TCP connections.
>
> > and can
> > windows users up a connection [on nodemand] without telneting into a
> > firewall/masq machine
>
> If you let them :-).
>
> The default is not to let TCP connections do anything but monitor
> the link. You can change the default by editing config.h and
> recompiling or you can allow TCP connections to increase their
> privileges using a simple (and, I suspect, still undocumented)
> authentication method:
>
> In you diald config use:
>
> authsimple /etc/diald.auth
>
> In /etc/diald.auth use:
>
> # The default settings
> default control,auth,monitor
>
> # Someone who can up or down the link manually
> password1 control,auth,monitor,up,down
>
> # Someone who can block/force the link and toggle demand
> password2
> control,auth,monitor,up,down,block,unblock,force,unforce,demand,nodemand
>
> # A bigman can do anything and everything
> bigman 0xffffffff
>
> # Anything else gets the default back
> * control,auth,monitor
>
> If you use dctrl's "Access name" option on the config menu you
> can enter one of those passwords on the left and get the
> capabilities listed on the right.
>
> Now note that dctrl is written in Tcl/Tk and that Windows version
> of Tcl and Tk are available from ftp.scriptics.com and you are
> set. (You need the images for the buttons as well as the dctrl
> script itself and you may want to change the imagepath setting
> at the beginning of dctrl for Windows).
>
> If your users aren't sophisticated enough to use dctrl or they
> don't care about the monitor features you could even just use
> a couple of CGI scripts and a webserver on the firewall to send
> requests to diald's fifo. Come to that I seem to remember a
> Tcl/Tk plugin which could be fun to experiment with. Or you could
> write a dctrl-a-like in Java. Or...
>
> Mike
>
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