I would suggest that the first thing you do is to look at running an "on-demand" ppp connection. This will do the dialing for you whenever a machine on the internal network has a valid connection to the outside world. You can define your firewall rules to select which machines are allowed the connect (and even at what times).

By running your firewall machine as a gateway (i.e. with Windows clients you want the firewall to be a DHCP server) you can minimise the fiddling you need to do on the clients.

There are lots of books on doing this type of thing, and the HOWTOs are also worth reading.

If your ISP supports it you can set up your firewall machine as a DNS, mail and news server as well (in fact you can spend hours messing with it).

If you want some level of control from the clients you could, for example, set up a web server (only for the internal network of course) that uses CGI (in Perl naturally) to control the PPP connection.

In reply to Re: secure remote command by hawtin
in thread secure remote command by melguin

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