Re: [PLUG] Internet Script (For Windows 2000)

[Naresh Reddy <nyg102@psu.edu>]

Diald is a bad idea, a bad idea. I like the idea of ssh -c "sudo wvdial &
diso route add default ppp0". I am using putty now. Is there a way I can
do it off there?


THanks
Naresh


http://www.personal.psu.edu/nyg102


On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bill Jonas wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:11:47PM -0500, Naresh Reddy wrote:
> > Is there a way to make a windows script or automate this task, so If I
> > click on an ICON it does all this for me?
>
> If there's a command-line ssh client for Windows, you could create a
> batch file containing something like this:
>
> @echo off
> ssh -c "sudo wvdial & sudo route add default ppp0"
>
> If you're a programmer, you could grab the putty source from
> <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/> and hack together a
> solution from that.  Or a telnet-based solution might be even simpler,
> since it would all be on your local network.  (Just be sure you don't
> have telnetd listening on ppp0 on your gateway.)
>
> On the other hand, perhaps a dial-on-demand solution would work just as
> well with less bother.  The traditional way to do this in Linux is with
> diald; try the HOWTO at
> <http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diald-HOWTO.html>.  There's also another
> document I found at <http://www.zeuter.com/~tburden/linux/> that might
> be of some help.  Note that I've never used diald or the other document,
> so I can't comment on how good they are.
>
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