[PLUG] Software News from Europe & Detroit

[Paul Johnson]

On Thursday 23 December 2004 3:15 am, techmage at aracnet.com wrote:

> I think the best reason is that the most recent distros have conquered 
> my dread of setting up PPP for dial up. In my last three installs, it 
> has worked flawlessly from the start. I'm still working on the " How 
> to do dialup without logging in as root" thing. But, for now, I'm 
> accepting that one little flaw.  

In Debian, the easiest way to do it in the long term from what I've 
found requires an external modem with a power switch.  Use pppconfig to 
set up your connection and tell it to persist and to automatically 
reconnect if it disconnects.  mv /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot 
to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot.  PPP is now set up to try to reconnect at all 
costs.  Use the switch on the modem to turn on or off the connection.  
It may take a few seconds to dialup again when you turn on the modem.

Simple, elegant and it works.  What more could you ask for?

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.dyndns.org
http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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