[PLUG] Dial-Up to ISP

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Charles Sliger wrote:

> I need to get a dial-up connection established to an ISP.

I just moved my last dial-up customer on to DSL so I'm moving all that
info out of main memory ... :-)  but most distributions provide a very
simple dial-up configuration setup.  The dial-on-demand is trickier.  For
years I used diald ( 0.16-5 I think ) and it worked quite well.  Probably
far more power than most users need but it was solid.  Then it finally
made version 1.0 but many things changed causing my other setups to break.  
I stopped using it.  I personally went to a hardware firewall with a
serial port that I connected to my whole home network. This is one option.

A variation on this is a smoothwall box with a modem connected or inside.  
I am working on doing this for fun and one user at our local user group ( 
not PLUG ) is doing to do the same.  Not sure how/if it handles 
dial-on-demand.

With all that said I'll point out that my "last dial-up customer" didn't
do dial-on-demand.  He had the modem tool/applet on his taskbar and would
connect and disconnect manually.

If you can share what distribution you're using we might be able to get 
you headed in the right direction.


Rod
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