Re: Connection Sharing on demand
- From: "Luiz Borges" <luiz_borges@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Apr 2006 15:36:25 -0700
Assume - old PC is dialing in now.
Not dialing, its broadband and is always connected.
Are the other 20 desktops coming and going all the time? Microsoft uses
DHCP to simplify the setup of the desktop at the cost of complexity in
the DHCP server and massive security problems. You _can_ run DHCP if
you want to, but I'd suggest looking at using static addressing.
Right now it uses static addressing, I planning in changing to DHCP to
simplify future changes in network, and throw away all those IP
listings.
There are many ways this can be done - the simplest method would be to set
the LAN IP of the dialin box as the default gateway on all of the desktops,
and run pppd on the dialin box in the demand mode. The pppd man page
discusses how. Briefly, you have two scripts, one that does the management
of pppd, and the other that dials the telephone. AN EXAMPLE would be
When I said dial-up-like, I meant the user has to click a connection to
input user and pass to get connect to the internet, and not really dial
to ISP.
There are over 300 different Linux distributions. There are also several
different distributions of *BSD. That is the problem - so many choices.
But then, there are also so many different brands of beer and cars and...
I know about that, that's why I taking suggestions... ;)
Luiz Borges
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