Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:55:08 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with -current ppp Message-ID: <199709211355.OAA27879@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Sep 1997 09:05:49 %2B0200." <19970921090549.CU01386@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Well, this is a one-user box, so that's not really a concern. In any case, > > > Brian informed me in private mail of a neat little trick to accomplish what > > > I wanted. > > > > Tell me your IP address and the hours when you're generally on and > > surfing. I'll show you how "one user" that box is. ;-) > > Do you also accept the pathname of a local-domain socket, Jordan? :-) The "publishable" bit about the "trick" was to set up a script (say pppcmd) that's not readable/writable by anyone except you that does #! /bin/sh exec pppctl -v -p mypassword 3000 "$@" You can then start ppp -auto, and talk to it with things like $ pppcmd dial $ pppcmd close $ pppcmd set timeout 300 $ pppcmd show ipcp Of course making this a unix domain socket makes it even tighter (although on my LAN, I have many of these scripts that all talk to the gateway, therefore I need the tcp socket). > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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