LineControl Server,
Copyright (C) 1999-2002 by S. Fuchs <linecontrol@gmx.ch>

You may find the Homepage of LineControl at
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~sfuchs/LineControl/
and
http://linecontrol.sourceforge.net/

--- About

This is LineControl Server. It is designed to run on a Linux
masquerading server which has for example a dial-up line to
your ISP to control.

LC is something similar to masqdialer and other remote control
programs for network-connections. I wrote it in need of
a simple tool for my home - network. First I didn't know
about masqdialer, then I didn't want to teach me using it...
With LineControl you can use the old scripts you used
to control your connection manually. So it's very easy
to switch from telnet :) to LineControl.
Well, I have to say that the description 'simple tool'
isn't correct anymore. LineControl grew quite a bit and
has got some nice features.

LineControl needs a client application on each host using
the dial-up line. It takes care about the number of clients
using the line and decides upon this value whether the
masquerading server should be connected to the internet
or not.


--- Donations

If you're happy with LineControl and would like to show your
appreciation we're always happy to get something for
the work we've done. At least I (S. Fuchs) can only work
on LineControl in my sparetime and thus get paid neither
for development nor for support.

We're neither a firm nor an other instituion. So a donation
can only reach one of the developers. On
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~sfuchs/LineControl/ --> "Contact"
You can see a list of the packages (server + clients) of which
LineControl consists and their maintainers.

DVDs, CDs and plain money are always good ideas... ;)

You can reach me, the initiator of the project and maintainer
of linesrv, wlc, xlc and lcc (as well as lclog, lclog-mysql),
as

S. Fuchs
Wildsbergstr. 25
8606 Greifensee
CH - Switzerland


--- Contact

Please read
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~sfuchs/LineControl/ --> "Contact"

at least if you're not a very experienced linux user.
It reduces a lot of unneccessary work.

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LineControl uses /dev/isdninfo to determine the connection-status.
I only tested it with i4l from SuSE Linux 6.1 (using kernel 2.2.13
and 2.4.0-test1 up to 2.4.3). And also running Debian potato/woody.

If you're not interested in the ISDN options or want to use
LineControl with the normal pppd so set 'con_type netdev'
instead of 'con_type isdn' or use the 'con_type file'
option.

For a description of the LPT-status feature look at
./config/lpt_status (You're quite certainly not going
to use it... so just don't care about it.)

Theres now LCD support via /dev/lcd. See ./config/lcd_device
for details.

Look at ./config/complete-syntax/ for further description of
the possible configurations.

Good luck

S. Fuchs