I have several boxes at home on one dialup connection to share. So I have set up a Linux box with Masqurading, etc so all can have access to the Internet at the same time (it crawls, but slow is better than none). My problem is that in order to connect, I need to ssh in to the gateway and then dialup. However, this becomes a pain after a while.

At one of my early tech jobs, we had a remote site that had everyone on a LAN with a Linux box dialing up two ISDN lines. The admins who set it up created a program that anyone could run (I think it worked through http) that told the server to dial up. I really like that idea but have no idea where to start.

Everything else I can visualize how to do except the actual talking of each client to the gateway. What areas should I research/look into to find out how to do this? Or perhaps someone has already done something similar and could share their insights.

Also, I would like this to be fairly secure (i.e. no rsh, etc.)

Many thanks.

In reply to secure remote command by melguin

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