Re: Wvdial & pppd
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:20:39AM +0100, Marco Presi wrote:
> Hello :)
>
> Just A question: I always used wvdial with no problem, but I noted that
> many people (not only in this ml) depreciate it. Why? Security?
It's less flexible from a normal-user standpoint. I haven't used it for
some time, but I seem to recall you had to be root to run it and eats up
a terminal in the process. I never had a problem with it working either.
--
#! /bin/sh
# ppp-address: What's my Internet Address for ppp0 ?
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 2> /dev/null | grep 'inet addr:' | sed \
's=.*inet addr\:\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*=\1='
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