[ale] Dial-in widget for SuSE-11.1

[Meuon]

PPP does not "dhcp". In average ISP configs it hands out an address  
netmask and gateway and DNS
After authentication. Depending on the initial auth  mode, this is  
capable of being plain text and easy to monitor. If PAP is used, not  
so easy.

I usually config with ppp-config
And use pon, poff, and plog for manual control. Plog is useful for  
debugging PPP issues.

On Jul 4, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 04 July 2009 5:16:42 pm John Mills wrote:
>>
>> Another question: what setting do I need so PPP also obtains a DNS  
>> server?
>> I'm currently using a couple that my primary ISP provides, but PPP  
>> should
>> be able to set this, no?
>>
>
> I believe PPP merely provides the "tunnel" to your ISP via the  
> modem. It's
> really sending ethernet frames which in turn contain IP packets and  
> so on up
> the chain. The DHCP exchange with your ISP sets the name servers --  
> which get
> recorded in /etc/resolv.conf. wvdial has a config file and some  
> scripts that
> are used to update resolv.conf. And IIRC kinternet uses these same  
> scripts.
> There may be a hook to allow you to have a say in the matter or you  
> may have
> to tweak the scripts (yeesh). Check out man kinternet, wvdial and  
> resolv.conf.
>
> BTW, I think you can only have 3 name servers declared.
>
>
>> TIA.
>>
>>  - Mills
>>
>> On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Tim Watts wrote:
>>> wvdial is your friend.
>>>
>>> Would NetworkManager also handle this? On KDE it's  
>>> knetworkmanager. Not
>>> sure what the Gnome equiv is.
>>
>> "Ignorance more frequently begets certainty than does knowledge."
>>  -- Charles Darwin
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