On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:20, Dhawal Doshy wrote: > jtd wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:09, Dhawal Doshy wrote: > >> From what i've heard from an ex-reliance employee is that they > >> make a good effort to ensure that linux users can easily use > >> their services. Why?? i wouldn't know. > > > > Rubbish. They took pppconfig (afair) and modified it to > > install /etc/chatscripts/reliance and would not release the code > > or even say 'reliance' was the only file required. Never mind > > that u could just copy at+CRM=1;$LGPKT=3 to any dialers conf file > > and make it work. > > And did any other ISP do even this much for linux users? I never > claimed they wrote something from scratch.
IF they wanted compatability they would have just documented the 2 lines. And btw that too happened cause a very large potential customer wanted to run linux. They were at the time running M$ pptp on the backend, with some insane configuration. > And did you bother to document the workaround / solution and share > it with others? Check the list archives. > > Proof will be enough to shut me up.. i have no love of reliance, > but i think the are doing a decent job OR at least tried doing one They werent. But except for the closed pppconfig (which they later opened) it was atleast not deliberate. > can we EOT this?? we have a new enthusiastic user to help. yessir ;-) -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
