[Gllug] Dialling the net remotley

[Vincent AE Scott]

> On Wednesday 01 August 2001 20:26, you wrote:

> I do similar by different means, I have a dial on demand firewall, a 
> fetchmail cron job collects my mail at fixed intervals (I use cron
> rather  than fetchmail daemon so that I know what time the cron job
> will happen). If I want something from my machine while at a friends
> house or at work, I  ssh to my box at the known fetchmail time, the SSH
> session traffic keeps the  dial on demand connection going until I have
> logged off.
> 
> Trouble is you really need a fixed IP address for this to work (or
> maybe  dyndns).

bobbins!

in your ip-up ppp scripts, just post your IP address to a cgi script sat on 
a web server somewhere, or just send yourself an email.



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