Re: [Sheflug] Re: Dial on demand scripts

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From the man pages of smpppd.conf and smpppd-c.conf, it seems you have
to set open-inet-socket=yes in smpppd.conf, and then use smpppd-c.conf
to configure the clients to use this server.

I don't know much more than that, as my firewall machine has gone up the
creek (very old and rickety. hardware gave out on me). Still, it's a
start.

Craig

On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 14:28, Damien J Dye wrote:
> Yep they can
> 
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> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Re: Dial on demand scripts
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 12:16, Damien J Dye wrote:
> > > there is no wvdial.dod only smpppd and that only allows the local
> machine to
> > > connect on demand not the network.
> >
> > If you bring up the connection on demand from the local machine, are
> > other machines on the LAN then able to access the internet? If not, the
> > problem isn't with the demand script at all - ip forwarding won't be set
> > up correctly.
> >
> > If they can connect to the LAN, have a look at the man page for smpppd
> > and see how it says it detects network activity - it might be that it
> > blocks traffic from the local LAN by default to prevent the link being
> > brought up accidentally (I don't have the smpppd software installed, or
> > I would look for you).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alex.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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