Re: PPP Manual Dial?
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Jean Orloff wrote
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> is getting on my nerves (and I won't let my wife or kids do that...). So what I
> would like is some graphical front-end to pppd, displaying the status, and
> with buttons to start/stop a connection. This could be started by root at boot
> time, solving the suid problems. (I tried
> chmod a+s /usr/sbin/pppd /usr/sbin/chat;
> chmod a+rx /etc/ppp/chat*
> but no way I could fire a ppp session as a simple mortal user...). Including a
> prompt for the password in such a setup would be relatively trivial.
>
> Does anyone know of something of this kind? I vaguely saw a related tool for
> diald: a good hint? Come on: we could easily do better than windoze and the
> uggly trumpet winsock on this one, and this is a huge selling argument!
>
> Amities,
>
> Jean Orloff
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I use TKppp. I believe I got it from sunsite. I made a few modifications
to suit my personality, but it it is mostly stock. It does auto-redial,
auto-reconnect, and pings at an interval (user-defined) to keep your ISP
from shutting you off if you take too long reading your mail :-\.
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