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From: Tim Coleman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 3 March 2000 3:09
To: Wilson Fletcher
Subject: Re: dialing different hosts
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:55:51AM +1100, Wilson Fletcher wrote:
> I'm not upto this stage yet becuase I would still have the same problem
> ie. How to I get authentication to work on different hosts for the same
> login id ?
I think I already went through this and you said it didn't work :(
hmmm, don't remember .... It's possible to connect to different hosts with
the same name the only question is how many hoops do you have to jump
through to achieve it ? In fact I experimented with the remotename pppd
option to good effect last night.
> 2. A script that alters the phone number in your chat-script and then
hangs
> up diald (if it is online) and reconnects to the new number. The number
is
> probably the minimum (it's all I require) but you could maybe alter other
> features or get it to load different files etc.
> Something like diald-switch -n 1234567
Actually, you could just start up diald with different options file
depending
on what connection you want, which could then mean you have different
chat scripts. I think the -f option allows you to specify configuration
file for diald.
command line could be something like:
$ DIALD_OPTIONS=/etc/diald/options.work /etc/rc.d/init.d/diald restart
and in the diald startup, something like:
...
if [ "$DIALD_OPTIONS" == "" ]; then
DIALD_OPTIONS=options.home;
fi
diald ... -f $DIALD_OPTIONS;
...
and then you could have "connect" differently in each of your diald options
files.
Of course, this is all off the top of my head and may not work. YMMV.
Yep and it sounds good to me Tim, I was thinking the exact same thing last
night but I haven't tried it yet because I wanted to get my pap-secrets
issues sorted out first.
I do now have work around for pap-secrets which is to use the remotename
pppd option which forces a server name and thus ensures that pppd chooses
the correct password from pap-secrets.
Which means I would probably have something like:
# In /etc/rc.d/init.d/diald script
prefhost = defaulthost
Ask for user's host preference
Get response, parse it, blah blah blah OR time out
If user chose another then
set prefhost etc ,etc
# start diald with appropriate options and config
/usr/bin/diald -f diald.$prefhost -- remotename $prefhost
Once I get this running then I'll be able to set a script entry that will
switch between them even during sessions ... of course I might loose the
odd packet in the process but what's a few packets between friends (after
all I'm not controlling the space shuttle).
Forgive the pseudo yuk I don't carry syntax in my head .... and my life
doesn't generally depend on bash.
Thanks for the reply,
Wilson Fletcher
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