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It's 07 Mar 97  13:47,
We'll return to lannet@albury.net.au and All's
discussion of How do I get 'dial-out' on demand?

 la> I am seeking some suggestion as to how I can achieve dialout to my ISP
 la> on demand.

 la> My network is a Linux box (2.0.20) with 2 ethernet networks supporting
 la> Win95 PCs.  The IP adresses on the conform to RFC 1597.

 la> Has anyone had a play with this idea.  Could I some how use inetd to
 la> recognise that a PC on the network want to establish a connection?

 la> All ideas are welcomed.

Have a look at diald, which is a demand dialler.  It should do what you
want.  Just point your routing for win 95 to the Linux box, and whenever
there's traffic for the dialup link, it will be established, and will be
dropped when no valid traffic has occurred for a set period of time.

diald is very configurable, so you should be able to make it work just
as you need.  For example, it can be made to ignore specific packet
types (e.g. routing broadcasts), so the link doesn't come up
unnecessarily.

Have a look around the usual Linux FTP sites. :-)

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