Re: graphical frontend to pon/poff
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:22:26PM +0000, Simon Tod wrote:
> I thought gkdial would be just the ticket to use as a
> 'wrapper' around pon/poff - gpppon is too simplistic -
> and it seems to work, reasonably well. BUT the dialog
> box doesn't display the fact that it's successfully
> connected and the counters that display bytes
> transferred and length of connection stay at zero.
> ALSO, if I close the dialog box when I'm not connected
> I can't reopen it, except from the command line and
> the whole point was to have a nice user friendly icon
> on the desktop...
Frontends are overkill. Two options on how to do this better with
just the ppp package with no frontends:
With any modem: Add the "demand" option to the PPP configuration.
With external, non-USB modems (recommended): Add the "persist" option
and rename /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot. To
connect: Turn modem on. To disconnect: Turn modem off.
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.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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