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Erik Soosalu (esoosalu@nospam.hotmail.com) wrote:
: In article <6ja3mh$47u$2@kiyoko.communique.net>, hebertf@cnrf.nola.navy.mil (Fred Hebert) wrote:
: >I am looking for a Linux guru for some quick answers to questions about 
: >firewalls and proxy servers.
[...]
: >Nearly all of my customers are getting connected to the Internet.  Most only 
: >have dial on demand connectivity, but some have leased lines.  One of my 
[...]

: I'm not an expert at this, but I can make a couple of comments.  The 
: masquerading features you are looking for are built into the latest kernels 
: (as are the firewall features).  Look at www.linux.org in the help centre for 
: information on this.  In particular, the Firewall and Ip-Masqurade Howto's

	Good starting point for this `man ipfwadm'.

: Dial on demand can be accomplished in a couple of ways.  The only way that I 
: have any experience with is the program DialD 
: (www.loonie.net/~eschenk/diald.html)  which brings your link up and down 
: depending upon the traffic flowing through it.  I found it to work quite 
: well so far.  Again check the howto's (in particular ISP-Hookup).

	Dial-on-demand feature embeded now in pppd.
	For leaf IP-nodes `request-route' (kerneld) can be used
for default route wake-up.