The masqdialer system is designed to provide easily accessible control of multiple dialout modem connections to the members of a LAN using IP Masquerade for their internet connectivity. The server utilizes standard dialing tools to make the connection (such as pppd and chat) to make the connection so you can easily setup the server to use your existing scripts. The system is a client/server design, so as long as a client can be written for a particular platform, that platform can take advantage of masqdialer's offerings. The masqdialer daemon runs on the linux machine, and upon an authorized client request, carries out the user's request. You can read the documentation at http://w3.cpwright.com or you can read index.html in the docs directory of the distribution (just type make to produce it from the index.m4 file). To join the mailing list send mail to majordomo@cpwright.com with "subscribe mserver" in the body, send mail to mserver@cpwright.com to post. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 and is developed in my spare time. If you appreciate this then you can send me some email telling me so. You could also give me interesting hardware (like an Sun system you have lying around somewhere). I also wouldn't mind monetary contributions to subsidize Jolt Cola and neat toys. I will also sell Masqdialer support, installation, whatever for money. If you would like to make arrangements please contact me via email. -- Charles P. Wright cpwright@cpwright.com http://w3.cpwright.com/