Hello All, I am looking for advice on my home network project, which is making good use of GNU/Linux on old hardware. It's a Pentium M with some RAM and a 2 GB CF-IDE, upon which I installed Debian 5. There's no X. My only Internet comes on a USB surf stick with a SIM card, which is handy when on the go. After a lot of RTFM I got usb-modeswitch configured to get around the Zero Install feature of the surf stick, which is meant for Windows machines. At the moment, I bring Internet to my home network like so:
[plug in that stick and wait for the LED to go green] $ lsusb #just checking that usb-modeswitch did its thing $ sudo wvdial #makes my external connection $ sudo ./firewall.sh #brings up NAT and firewall to share the Internet I plan to have this "firewall" laptop continuously on, but run NAT and firewall on demand. I will plug in that surf stick whenever I want Internet in my home network, then pull it out when I don't need it at home. Now for the questions: How do I automate the above? This firewall has to sense when it got the stick, and react by waiting for the ttyUSB2 to be ready, dial out, then run the firewall script. How do I automate taking down the firewall? The firewall has to sense that I pulled out the stick, take down the firewall and kill wvdial and pppd. I am asking about the automation, because I plan to remove the laptop screen to save power. Now, if I took the screen out will Debian complain? How do I connect to it to do system maintenance? Is that possible without logging into root on this firewall? Any advice or pointers to the right mailing list would be appreciated. Edwin -- There are 10 types of people: ones that know binary and ones that don't. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
