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Re: modem share
Peter writes:
>
> What I meant was, if you use this on any small network you wind up dialing
> for any user on the network trying to access any address not resolved
> locally for any reason. Especially if the modem and diald sit on the
> server. It is just too democratic for any firewall-less use, and by that I
> mean that the firewall must be there to protect the modem on outgoing
> connections. I did not mean users on the same machine. (I never mean that
> as each user has his box on a network, no ?).
Not if either of the following hold:
-Diald is configured to only bring up the connection for packets
from particular hosts.
-The linux box with diald is configured to reject and/or not
forward traffic from particular hosts.
In other words, your objection is to autodialing in general, not to
diald in particular.
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Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il