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Re: modem share




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 ?). 


Peter Lorand Peres
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Harvey J. Stein wrote:

> Peter writes:
>  > 
>  > As pointed out, diald tries to do it, but it is very funky. Read the 
>  > manual carefully as it has some limitations. It is especially braindead 
>  > when used in combination with PPP as it requires a local SLIP link or such.
>  > imho tunneling more than one user's traffic using diald is a bad idea.
> 
> I don't know what your point is.  It doesn't tunnel.  It uses a slip
> link on ptys to watch the traffic & brings up the ppp connection when
> it sees traffic that should be forwarded.  What does this have to do
> with the number of users using it?
> 
> -- 
> Harvey J. Stein
> Berger Financial Research
> hjstein@bfr.co.il
> 
>