> Hi, > well I've not needed to do this since RH6.2 and I can't find a good > HOWTO that makes it just a few commands to setup a ppp connection ... > > No I'm not a newbie, but I sure as hell feel like one when I can't > do this easily! > > On RH6.2 I think I used linuxconf to setup my PPP connection - that > server still has the ppp connection setup but it doesn't use it > anymore - it's just ADSL now (and linuxconf doesn't handle ppp anymore > and I wouldn't want to use it if it did due to the number of problems > people have had with it since RH7.0 changing permissions etc) > > I need to now setup a 7.1 system with dialup access but not using the > KDE internet-dialer coz it doesn't create a ppp0 that shows up with > the "ifconfig" command (or does it? and I'm just blind as a bat? :-) > I want to be able to use "if-up" and "if-down" (or equivalent) but I > can't seem to work out what is going on with the KDE internet-dialer > (or why it stores the ppp username/password etc somewhere other than > /etc/ppp/*) > The 7.1 machine will be a dialup router/server so I don't want to have > to use 'X' to start the connection every time > > So - can someone point me to an easy HOWTO to setup the ppp > connection? > > The docs in /usr/share/doc/ppp-2.4.0/README.linux goes on > about setting > up a /dev/ppp and a whole lot of other stuff that I know I didn't do > last time on RH6.2 > > Is there an easy way? Or do I need to setup all the config > files manually > for a ppp connection (as per the ppp docs) > > -Thanks for any help! > -Andrew
Check out wvdial (I think the passwords are stored in /etc/wvdial.conf). I believe that you can also use rp3 to set it up. YMMV Forrest _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
