diald or what else?

[superdave42]

Here's my setup:
I got 4 win9x clients accessing a RH 7.2 box running squid with dansguardian checking content, and it all works fine. The problem lies with the fact that I'm using a modem to connect, which means I have to tell it to dial out before I can get on the internet. I have been using telnet, but someother user find it just a little difficult.

I tried using diald to connect but with no success. Can you tell me a little bit about how diald works, some commen problems, or another program that would do the job.

 

[KarveR]

If you only use the RH box as an internet gateway maybe consider smoothwall instead (

http://www.smoothwall.co.uk

- pay version or

http://www.smoothwall.org

- FREE version, less functionality although it still is an immensly good firewall and has VPN ability and SQUID, IDS, DMZ, port forwarding etc etc etc). ***************************************
Party on, dudes!

 

[superdave42]

That's nice, but I'm going to run more than a network gateway on my Linux box.

 

[superdave42]

I still am having problems. Any help? What do most people do when they have a proxy server with an analog modem they can't leave on all the time?

 

[DumTech]

superdave42-

I set up a script at home so that my wife can just click a link on our home page (er, LAN home page - Apache running on the local box, which is Red Hat 7.1) to run 'ifup ppp0' if we aren't already online. The script checks for the ttyS0 lock file (first thing I came across that would tell me if the modem was in use or not...may be a better way...) and if it's there, gives the option to disconnect instead.

I don't use the Linux box as a proxy, but the 'on-demand CGI connection' works fairly well from any machine on the LAN at home.
Matt
matt@paperlove.org
If I can help, I will.