Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:21:05 -0400 From: Tom Limoncelli <tal@lumeta.com> To: admin@chillicothehospital.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Control of ppp dial-in Message-ID: <3D35C3A1.A8D29EB@lumeta.com> References: <3D343563.27454.15F595E@localhost>
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admin@chillicothehospital.org wrote:
>
> I would like to be able to control the time of day that ppp is able to dial the modem on a
> freebsd-4.5 box , 8-5 in -ddial mode, then deny requests at other times.
> Any ideas?
The current PPP implementation does not have such controls. You can fake
it with cron: Make a ppp.conf-open and ppp.conf-closed file. Add a cron
job that copies one of those two files to ppp.conf, and kills/restarts the
daemon.
--tal
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