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diald was a serious uncomprehensible mess last time i looked,<br>
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the most success i've had is with a program called wvdial,
alternatevly, if you put 'demand' into your /etc/ppp/options and
configure it to come up on boot it will dial when it want to send
traffic,<br>
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google for wvdial :-)<br>
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bredroll<br>
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Dylan wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Wednesday 25 December 2002 00:38, Jonathan Harker wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
A simple thing, really. I have looked in the HOWTOs and man pages, googled,
fiddled with netconf and drakconf and torn hair from head when it broke,
twiddled in /etc/ppp/options and tore more out when that broke too, but
unfortunately I can't make head or tail of it, I don't have a PhD in
networking, and I am now partly bald. Or perhaps I was before I started and
just didn't notice.
I have two machines, my Mandrake 9 box and a windows box, hooked up with a
crossover cable. That bit works fine, as ping, samba etc. works nicely. (If
you need to know, I have mandrake = 192.168.0.101 on eth0, windows = .0.1,
default gateway = .0.101, DNS = .0.101... do I need to point the DNS to my
linux box?).
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You don't need to, but you can - if you do, then the Linux box will need to be
running a caching name service daemon (er, ncsd, I think...) If you don't,
then the Win box will need to know the /external/ dns server IP's. the
gateway setting will then deal with getting that connection out. btw - have
you tried a ping from the Win box to an external site (like your ISP dns or
mail server (via its IP address?)
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<pre wrap="">All I want to do is have my Mandrake box dial up the internet on demand on
its farty 56K modem whenever it or the windows box requests stuff.
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That's handled by diald, but I've never used that...
hth
Dylan
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