Introduction

Wconnect is a windows client for Alt+Connect (i.e. connectd).

Alt+Connect is a program to manage dialup connections: it allows a group of networked machines to share a single internet connection through their server. Users use special client software to start or stop their internet connection, and the server (connectd) ensures that the connection remains up only while someone's using it.

For example, you might have a Linux server, with a modem, networked to some Windows and Linux machines. Install connectd on your internet gateway and any of those machines can start or stop the server's modem connection.

Microsoft call this Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). I'd describe it as a proxy dialer--you need ip-forwarding (a feature of the linux kernel) or a web/ftp proxy (like or Squid) to fully share an internet connection, and Alt+Connect doesn't try to provide these services. But the windows connectd can make use of Window 2000's ICS.