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RE: PPP Dialer and Monitor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Sat Nov 21 10:10:10 1998
In-Reply-To: <E0zh7ms-0001qI-00@cork.local>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 09:11:45 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 21-Nov-98 Padraic Renaghan complained about PPP Dialer and Monitor:
> I am looking for a PPP dialer and monitor for X windows.
> I have setup my PPP connection using the RH 5.1 Control Panel.
> Everything seems to work fine. I am looking for a simple X app that
> allows me
> to manage my PPP connection - Connect, Disconnect, Speed, Status... I
> would
> like something that can easily use the PPP setup of RH without
> modifying any
> of the pppd files. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> I already looked at everything I could locate on freshmeat like
> x-isp.
> Everything seems to want to add/modify PPP configurations. I would
> like to
> leave the RH setup alone since it works fine and I also need to start
> and stop
> the PPP interface from shell scripts in cron jobs.
I understand your concern. But, I've used Kppp, EzPPP, Xisp, etc. So
far, only one modification has ever had to be made, and that was done
byt hand by me. That was simply to remove the work 'lock' in one file.
Everything has continued to work without error, even with that
modification.
I presume you're talking about the little boxes where you make changes
(i.e. adding username, etc). I can't recall exactly how the programs
save those changes since I haven't studied them all but, ezppp creates
a file in the $HOME directory called ~/.ezppprc and makes all changes
there. The others I've used had to do something similar because in no
case was any file changed from its original state except the one I was
told to modify.
So, if that's the only concern, try one of them, make a backup of the
only file I was told to modify, try it all out, and you can replace the
modified file if anything goes awry.
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Excuse my english; I went to US public school.
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