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Legacy Forums => Suggestions => Topic started by: Wei on January 05, 2001, 12:25:22 PM
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Sometimes we'd like to close the dialup connection to the ISP (e.g. so that a shared Internet/voice telephone line can be used for voice calls) -without- having to take down the server (which may be in use by a LAN workstation).
Rather than having to switch the modem's phone line between the phone & modem, I'd REALLY like a way to tell the e-smith box to "hangup and don't dial the ISP for a while," at -least- until I re-enable outgoing dialups to the ISP (e.g. later in the day).
I suppose a workaround -might- be to change the dialup policy, but wouldn't that require (to be safe) a reboot after each dialup policy change? If so, that -wouldn't- help, as server users would be disconnected.
(Not only that, isn't "freedom from the need to reboot after small config'n changes" one of the pleasures possible in the context of a Linux operating system?)
In light of recent talk of future Enable / Disable settings - hopefully, not all of which would require a reboot to make them effective (i.e. after a change to one or more of them) - it seems fitting that we get some -similar- Enable / Disable mechanism to free up a shared telephone line.
Since, in Australia, we pay for local calls to the ISP, it doesn't work for us to try to live with a shorter Internet connection-length policy (that would just increase the telephone bill, rather than facilitating our higher utilization of (ISP-imposed) 4-hour maximum connect-time per call).
We really need a manual Connect / Don't_Connect control, preferably accessible by LAN workstations via telnet.
TIA
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> but wouldn't that require (to be safe) a reboot after each >dialup policy change?
no
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
>We really need a manual Connect / Don't_Connect control, >preferably accessible by LAN workstations via telnet
better yet via a browser
or you can telnet and use lynx if you really want to
see
http://e-smith.50megs.com/isp.html
a user contributed hack till something better comes along
stephen
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Im useing the rpm called e-smith-isp that stephen made a point of at http://e-smith.50megs.com/isp.html . It will allow you to start / stop and setup Preset connection times in the e-smith-manager.
Thanks Michael
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A function that enabled the user to disable the phone line would be a feature that i would use and fot small time users that are sharing phone line's