Hi,

My ISP requires a dialer for the cable connection.
It is very similar to connection with ADSL with pptp.

The setup is like this:
1. Use drakconnect to configure cable connection (DHCP).
2. Setup some basic options in /etc/ppp/options
3. Run the ISP script (see below)

Is there a way to do all this from drakconnect GUI?
The problem is that many newbies can't follow the steps and if drakconnect
would do it automatically - it would be great.

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Here is the script for connection from my ISP (slightly modified)
(I use pptp-linux-1.1.0-2mdk)

#!/bin/bash

USERNAME="username"
IFACE="eth0"
ISP_HOST=isp.host.net

# Restart network service
#
#/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
#/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
/sbin/ifdown $IFACE
/sbin/ifup $IFACE

# Configure gateway (for the address in pptp command)
#
CABLEGW=`cat /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-$IFACE.info | grep GATEWAY | cut -d"=" -f2`
/sbin/route add -host $ISP_HOST gw $CABLEGW

# Run pptp
#
/usr/sbin/pptp $ISP_HOST debug user $USERNAME remotename $ISP_HOST mtu 1460 mru 1460 
defaultroute

# Instead of this we can use the if-up script
#
sleep 5

# Change the gateway (otherwise no internet beyond ISP)
#
NEWGW=$(/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet | cut -d":" -f3 | tail -1 | cut -d" "  -f1)
echo $NEWGW
/sbin/route add default gw $NEWGW
/sbin/route del default gw $CABLEGW


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