alt-connect was a fork of connect. connect doesn't seem to be on the net any more.
I used to use connect in the office before dsl. It worked well. I wasn't too concerned about who could and couldn't take the connection up and down, so never investigated those aspects. we only had three clients. It was nifty in that it had an OR type system, so if at least one person wanted the link up, it stayed up. So if i took the net up to check my email and then someone else took it up, when i said "close" cos i was finished, it stayed up until everyone was finished and indicated it could go down. nifty. You could also put any dialer behind it, so i used wvdial which is such a sweet package. it had a command line scripting ability to your mail checker could put something like this in a cron job: connect mailer up fetchmail #collect the mail sendmail -q #flush outgoing mail connect mailer down where mailer is a user authorised to take the link up & down. On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:28:22 +1200 Sascha Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whoever it is that is initiated the search for a solution (I missed the > start of the thread), you might want to have a look at this nifty > package. Known as connectd/Alt+Connect/wconnect > > http://freespace.virgin.net/fuchsia.groan/software/ > > I used to use it in a flatting situation, I'm pretty sure it supports > user authentication to get the net up or to disconnect it, admin > override (ie. root), multiple ISPs and one of the niftier things is that > it works over a network. > > There is unix command line client and a windows system tray client, and > the unix daemon. When one or more people 'connect' it brings up the > link, and then keeps it open until everyone has chosen to 'disconnect'. > > When I used it I used a very loose config, with no authentication but > enabling me to keep the isp passwords secret, but looking at the about > page, it can also restrict 'users' by time of day, isp or day of week. > So you cant get the flatmates using your account without your sayso, and > keep the kids offline during the week, and after 8pm on weekends. > > > Regards, > Sascha > > > On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 15:58, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > In a family situation the parents definitely want to have some control over > > > when their young(-ish) children do the Internet bit. > > > > Ok, both side are true. In some cases you want only root to start the > > dialup, in others you don't. > > > > > The root via sudo, or making a dialout group, is a very good solution to the > > > problem. > > > > Yes, if you want to restrict *who* is allowed to initiate a connection. > > (Resmgr also makes this dependent on where that user's login came from.) > > > > How does putting your kids into the dialout group control *when* (as you > > say) they're allowed to use the internet? > > > > Volker > > --
