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Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> Le lun 10/03/2003 � 02:20, Brook Humphrey a �crit :

> Well, Gnome can be hard, *even* for computer savvy people. Back to
> gnome-ppp, I just spent like 20 hours so far trying to know what was
> going on with a bug report. It's not like that I don't know what I'm
> doing, I founded three ISPs for god sakes, I installed hundreds and
> hundreds of modems, gave support to thousands of users, and can even
> recognize some brands and models of modems just by the sound they make
> by connecting!
>
> You would expect just giving the phone number, username and password,
> and expect it to connect, but no... You need to edit your pap-secrets
> file manually, give your username *twice* in the setup (username and
> remotename), and even then, there might still be problems because it
> always specifies an MRU of 296, even if you change it in the gnome-ppp
> settings, it will give the "mru 296" option to pppd, and this option,
> unfortunately, can not be overriden by specifying a MRU in
> /etc/ppp/options, so you're screwed if your ISP supports IPV6, because
> the RFCs specify that the MRU must be at least 1280, and that the
> default should always be 1500. (wow, I'm pissed of and it shows in the
> length of my sentences ;-)
>

You may want to give the mserver/gmasqdialer/kmasqdialer combo a try,
even on a standalone box, since you can then have any user dial the
connection. Even better when you are using the box for ICS with
windows/linux clients.

Buchan


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