I nice bit of work i saw, it utilising active desktop
Run a web server on the proxy, write a quick script
to initialise of close the ppp connection.
Use the page as your background, when you need to use
the net... *click* then when your done *click*
Its so foolproof, that your average wife/gf/flatmate/
partner will easily be able to master it =)
Dean
Bernhard L�der wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a little stuck:
>
> I have a modem link I need to establish randomly several times a day.
> However the other end cuts me off every 2 hours regardless of what I do.
> I cannot do anything about that or change it, but that excludes any
> keeping alive action like sending or collecting mail.
>
> Naturally I do not constantly want to redial the link every 2 hours,
> especially at night or when it is not used, ---> phone billl. So I
> thought I put on the PPP demand function, which I have working up to the
> extend, that it dials when the link is needed. However since I have to
> put in a fixed remote IP address for demand dialing under PPP, but the
> remote IP address is only known once I am connected (and is changing
> every the time), ppp actually does not establish the connection
> correctly when it reaches IP negotiation and exists
>
> What can I do?
>
> Bernhard
>
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