From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 14:50:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oracle.clara.net (oracle.clara.net [195.8.69.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6B437BCD3 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:50:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from merlin@A470.com) Received: from [212.126.141.238] (helo=A470.com) by oracle.clara.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12ovPt-00078V-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 May 2000 22:50:18 +0100 Received: (qmail 21000 invoked by uid 1000); 8 May 2000 21:52:44 -0000 Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 21:52:44 +0000 From: Darren Wyn Rees To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ppp 'set filter' question Message-ID: <20000508215244.K13317@netlink.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i Organization: A470 X-No-Archive: yes X-PGP-812C54B1: F8 79 5E 84 F0 20 A5 62 FA 2D E9 BD BE 06 7D 10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've succeeded in getting NAT working with ppp. I haven't configured 'dial on demand' with ppp (-auto etc), as yet. So, I have a simple network... FreeBSD serving other Windows machines, as a gateway (do please correct me if I'm using the term gateway incorrectly here). What I'd like to be able to do is this : 1) give the Windows machine a simple means to determine if the FreeBSD machine is online 2) give the Windows machine a restricted means of 'bringing the link up', ie. connecting to the Net. For (1) I considered configuring a simple finger client to finger a port on the FreeBSD machine which cat-ted a "online" or "offline". But I couldnt' find an MSDOS finger client ! I thought a simple shortcut on the Windows desktop that opened an MSDOS box would suffice. Does this sound reasonable ? I don't want to force users of the Windows machine to launch a large application to find out a tincy little bit of info. For (2), I'm unsure. I understand I can use 'set filter'. I've read the ppp man pages, and the 'Packet Filtering' section (and there was a hint on packet filtering in a sample ppp.conf that came with Walnut Creek CD). I'd like to allow the users of the Windows machines to dial-up by doing something very definite. How do other people solve this one ? Thanks for any useful tips. Darren PS. I'm /very/ impressed with this OS. Putting it lightly. It's a lot of fun. It rocketh. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message