>I am setting up a 3 computer network in my house. 1 win98se 1 win2000 and 1
>mandrake 7.0. What I want to do is 1st link them all with ethernet cards, I
>know how to do this. Then I want to use my linux computer to do all of the
>dialing in to my isp with a 56k modem. What I need to know is what do I
>use, and will linux automatically dial into the internet when one of the
>windows computers try to access the internet? How does it know when to
>disconnect from the interent? And is there anything special i need to do in
>win98 or 2000 to do this? Everyones help is gratefully apreatiated.
There are a couple of ways to do this. I prefer using the diald package.
Others probably prefer installing a newer version of the ppp demon which
supports on-demand-dialing.
I have a three computer network. A 486 running Slackware, a 586 running
Windows 95, and a Sun Sparc 20 running Solaris. The Linux machine did have
the diald package running on it until I just recently got a cablemodem.
Another package to look at might be the dialmon package. It runs a demon
on the Linux machine that monitors the diald demon. There is a client
program that is included that runs on Windows 95/98 and Windows 3.1. You
can then use this program to bring up and then take down the link to
your ISP.
Another way of doing the same thing is to install an Xwindow server
on your Windows machines. You can then run the dctrl script included
with the diald package. You need to have tcl/tk installed on your Linux
machine for this script to run.
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