Hi guys:
A newbie here... not new to Linux or Unix, but new to diald. I'm not
particularly knowledgeable about networking but I'm learning.
I'm getting confused while trying to figure out how to set up diald. Let
me describe the setup here:
One Linux box as a server, already configured to do IP-Masquerading. My
hope is to allow all other systems on the in-house network (another
Linux box, two or more Windoze boxen) use both IP-Masq and diald to: 1)
route all internet traffic thru the server, and 2) bring up the net
whenever some off-site-destination traffic appears there.
I'm sure diald can do it but am finding it hard to figure out all the
details.
The docs with diald are great, just not sufficiently low-level for my
level of expertise. For example, I'd love to see a sample set of
scripts for initializing diald from /etc/rc.d and how to make it
correctly interact with ip-masquerading, especially for a site where
I do not necessarily know either my IP address or the remote host's
IP address before dialup (though I could make some guesses about the
remote host if I were forced to).
I've been gathering info from various sources. One thing I have here
(and I can't recall where I got it) is a short 1/2 page blurb with items
numbered from 1 thru 5 (without attribution). It says that masquerading
shouldn't be started until after diald brings up the outbound
connection. Then it says that masquerading can be started either from
ip-up, or from "your diald addroute script". OK, what is the "diald
addroute script", where does it go, what should it contain? How do I
find out?
It also says not to use defaultroute, but "use addroute to set the masq
rules, then add a default route". My level of knowledge is sufficiently
low that while I kinda/sorta have an idea what this means I haven't
really a good enough grasp to figure out how to actually DO it.
Then it says that when the link goes down to delete the masquerade rules
from within "your diald delroute script". Again, I haven't a clue what
file this is or where it goes (or what goes in it).
I've been reading other docs, too, one is the "TrinityOS" document, as
well as the "Linux IP Masquerade mini HOWTO" by David Ranch, V 1.76 July
1999. Both of these documents allude to issues with using diald and
ip masq at the same time, but again I don't quite get it from what little
info they provide.
Further, the diald "make install" installs a file named "connect" in
the same place as the "standard.filter". But again I haven't figured
out how one uses this.
And then there's the document by Harish Pillay ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
entitled "Setting up diald for Linux - an example" which seems to do
it still differently.
So, my basic question is: H E E L L P P P P P !!!!
Thanks a bunch!
Fred
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