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Steffen Barszus wrote:

> Yes I know that. (have read your manual ;) )

MandrakeClub?

> What I would love to have is
> this solution ready made as default, and not this net_monitor. I have
> mentioned it to florin allready.

Well, either we need
1)something setuid
2)A daemon like mserver that handles requests as root.

mserver should work out-the-box.

>
> A similar tool would be linecontrol. But since we have mserver it
would be
> fine of course.
>
> My concern was that a lot of people didn't know how to go online in
the gui
> with LM 9.0 or drakconnect configured the modem, but the people had to
> reconfigure the same with kppp.

mserver just uses if{up,down} ppp0 by default, which drakconnect does
configure.

>
> I know how I can do that ;) I don't even use drakconnect since on cli
it is
> faster for my purposes.
>

You mean I should package a cli mserver client?

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