On Friday 16 August 2002 16.42, Derek Fountain wrote:
First question is, if I connect my modem to the new (old?) box, what do I use from my desktop to make it dial out when I want? I want to control when it goes online, so dial on demand isn't a good idea. Is there a dial-out-server of some sort which can be poked into action from another box?
You could look at the kinternet/cinternet - smpppd setup. I haven't tried it myself, but the manpages indicate that it's possible to set up kinternet on your local machine to use smpppd on a remote host to dial out.
Then, I presume, I set that box to route out onto the 'net, and make it the default route for all my other boxes - both Windows and Linux. Correct? If I do this, am I likely to hit any problems which I haven't thought about? I seem to recall FTP clients barfing on me when I've pointed them through a router - presumably that isn't an indicator of problems to come?
Strange. What exactly do you mean "pointed them through a router"? Everything you do on the internet (as opposed to a local LAN) will always go through a router. You set that up on the OS level, not the application level. Your ftp client doesn't need to know that it's going through a router. It should work anyway. //Anders -- 'Deserves [death]. I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.' --Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings