[ale] Windows -> Linux dial out

[Nick Lucent]

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Gary Maltzen wrote:

Im almost positive it wasnt setup right =) I had it working a while back,
and it seemed like it had a mind of its own much of the time, like
sometimes it would just dial out, even when i couldnt find anything
running. It was kind of weird, Im sure it was just a short between the
keyboard and the floor though.

Nick


> I sounds like you didn't have diald correctly configured.
> 
> Can we assume you have IP masquerade (or some variety of NAT or proxy)
> running on your L-box?
> 
> Diald should create a default (0.0.0.0) route on connection and remove it on
> hangup. If you have (improperly?) set up some other default route then this
> will be 'trashed'. Your only static routes should be your intranet routing.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Lucent <nlucent at mindspring.com>
> 
> 
> Im looking for a way for my girlfriend to be able to dial out from her
> windows box over the network. I cant get diald to work, it just trashes my
> route on startup, it dials out, but doesnt reset the route. At one point I
> hacked the source of dialmon to execute my dialout script rather then talk
> to diald through a fifo, but Ive since lost that. I have also tried
> masqdialer, and it works ok, but for somereason it only brings the link
> up, wont bring it down. Does anyone have any other suggestions for
> something that can be used?
> 
>