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Title: Manual Dialup control
Post by: xplo on September 06, 2001, 02:51:05 PM

Hi,

I'm a new E-Smith user starting to construct my own bit'n'pieces network at home. I'd love to hook this up to DSL at some point but for now dial-up is my only option.

Now, I set the broad connection policy during configuration (i.e. Medium connection times) but it kinda scares me a little, since I'm on a per hour ISP deal and it's hard to tell it is connected and when it's not.

Is there any way from within E-Smith that I can manually initiate connecting and disconnecting from my ISP?

Alex

Title: Re: Manual Dialup control
Post by: guestHH on September 06, 2001, 11:34:57 PM

Hi Alex,

There is a special contributed rmp for this issue. Look for:

e-smith-isp-0.1-7.noarch

Good luck,

guestHH

Title: Re: Manual Dialup control
Post by: Michael on September 07, 2001, 07:19:19 AM

Hi,

At the command line (via ssh or *Telnet)

ifup ppp0 #This will make the modem connect
ifdown ppp0 will disconnected it

Thanx, Michael

guestHH wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> There is a special contributed rmp for this issue. Look for:
>
> e-smith-isp-0.1-7.noarch
>
> Good luck,
>
> RequestedDeletion

Title: Re: Manual Dialup control
Post by: bushtor on September 07, 2001, 11:38:02 PM

Michael wrote:
> ifup ppp0 #This will make the modem connect
> ifdown ppp0 will disconnected it
>

Hi,

I have heard that these commands also can be invoked from a web page via a CGI script.  Where can I find examples of such a web page?

Tor

Title: Re: Manual Dialup control
Post by: xplo on September 08, 2001, 11:52:56 AM

Tried both methods and they worked. This stuff is fun.

Thanks guys.

Alex