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Re: dial up connection



On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:40:45PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Mark Grieveson wrote:
> > Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for
> > xfce?
> 
> Try gpppon.  It is essentially a GUI wrapper around pon and poff.
> Configure PPP with pppconfig.
> 
> Andrew Sackville-West writes:
> > what group is pppd? I think you can just add yourself to the dialout
> > group.
> 
> You need to be in the "dip" group.  No need to be in "dialout".

okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? is it just for
dialing the phone (say for a voice or fax call?) as opposed to making
a ppp connection?

A

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