Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
> how-to. When I switched to Debian, I quickly looked at pon, but soon
> went back to ppp-on which worked. I've started over, and just
> can't get pon to work. Not as easily as ppp-on anyway.
What?!? That mess (ppp-on) is easier than pon?
Here's what it took for me to set up ppp....
1) cat /usr/bin/pon
Looked at it, saw it uses /etc/ppp.chatscript.....
2) vi /etc/ppp.chatscript
plopped in the phone number, username, password
3) pon
Shouldn't take more than a minute and a half...
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