by g'day all,
i've just set up a Linux box (RedHat 6.1) with ipchains to connect all the
computers at work to the internet... I have a couple of questions...
1. How can I view the internet <-> network traffic ?? does anyone know the
name of any apps (even X ones) that may be able to display this? (sortof
like Wingate on Windows)...
2. Am using the 'demand' and 'idle' options with pppd which are working
fine... However whenever I run pppd it dials straight away. It's all setup
fine, it's the *y windows machines that make it connect straight away as
when i pull the linux box out of the network (physically), it doesn't dial
(unless I send any internet traffic obviously)... As soon as I plug the
cable back in, surely enough it starts to dial out. I've setup a caching
name server with 'named' and the DNS and gateway on all the windows machines
are set pointing to the linux box... (it still dialled straight away before
I setup named)... What exactly are those windows machines doing?? (No apps
are open on them)... Is there anything I can do so that it only dials out
when someone uses an internet app (Netscape, Mail, ICQ)... It also stops the
modem from* up after the timeout set by 'idle', so it never
disconnects!
thanks all :)
nick.