On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Chris Buechler wrote:

> (another bitten by the having to hit reply to all to send to list,
> this message below was intended for the list)
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: GA Burghout <g dot burghout at hccnet dot nl>
> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:24:32 +0200
> Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] dialup
> To: Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I hate to burst your bubble, but Chris is right... You need to do a lot to
> get dialup support in m0n0wall. Short and/or imcomplete checklist:
> 
> - add dialup support to the kernel (add tun0 device; recompile the lot)

I think that only pertains to doing it with the userland PPP
implementation.  MPD (already included in m0n0wall) can do it via
netgraph, and it appears that NETGRAPH_TTY is already included in the
kernel config.

> - add the tun0 device to the "device detector" when you first boot m0n0wall
> (now m0n0wall only detects devices with an active link)

I doubt that that would be the right level even if one *were* using the
userland PPP, since "detecting" tun0 with no PPP link established
wouldn't do much good.  But in this case it would be an MPD configuration
issue.

> - add (extra) webpages to the interface so you can configure dialup settings
> (like phone number and account information)
> - extensive testing to make sure everything works like it should (sigh...)

And for Soekris users:

An *accessible* serial port that's not the console. :-)

These issues are also relevant for dial *out*, for backup purposes.

					Fred Wright