[Gllug] pppd and connection sharing

[Ian Norton]

diald was a serious uncomprehensible mess last time i looked,

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,

google for wvdial :-)

bredroll

Dylan wrote:

>On Wednesday 25 December 2002 00:38, Jonathan Harker wrote:
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>>Dear all,
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>>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.
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>>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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>>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...
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>hth
>Dylan
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