Free up.link software for linux

LANdialler is a project which controls your routers dial up links from any computer (modem sharing).

LANdialler allows any computer (Windows, Linux, etc.) on a small LAN to control and share a modem attached to a *nix server.

It is typically used with IP masquerading or NAT on a Linux router to provide a house or small office with shared, on-demand, Internet access.

If you have a small home or office network (a LAN) that connects to the Internet via a dial up link on a Linux computer, then LANdialler could be of real use to you. If you havent got a Linux router yet find out how to set one up. The LANdialler client software should run on most operating systems, including Windows and Linux.

LANdialler consists of two programs:

The client is run on all desktop computers that require Internet access. It talks to the server, requesting Internet connectivity for as long as the user requires it. The interface is very simple, which is officially a "good thing".

The server runs on the router and manages the state of the dial up connection. It keeps track of the number of people who have asked to go online and keeps the Internet connection up until the last user disconnects.

Traff sniffs your network interfaces and accounts the IP traffic on an IP basis. The configuration is very flexible, allowing you to create different/multiple accounting rules. The collected data is stored in MySQL, PgSQL, syslog, or files.
The whole thing about Traff, is that you can specify for what IP you want to account the traffic, and even for what IPs talking with which peer. This means, that if you have a big up-link and you want to discover how much each or some hosts on your network are using this up-link, you can do that without caring about the other IP, as other programs do. So much less data will be stored at your database. The program runs as a daemon and periodically will dump all information collected to the database, syslog or a file.
Enhancements:
- Very big changes in this one. First of all, module Data and all external ump-programms are history. All necessary datafunctions where copy-n-pasted to traff.c. The different dump-procedures where intergrated into traff.c as well. Now there is a dump-function (data_mysql_dump, data_stdout_dump etc.) for each functionality. Therefore some changes in the configuration-file where necesary. Option sql does not exists any more.
- Instead od
- dump
- you now have to write
- dump [ stdout | syslog | textfile | binfile | [ { mysql | pgsql } host database table user password ]