[CLUG] install-isp

[Peter Flynn]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Donncha wrote:
> This came up last night at the CLUG meeting in the Metropole. 

I've been snowed under with post-millenial crap. I'm sorry I missed this
one.

> A few ideas were thrown around and it seems like an easyish job to write
> a script that'll setup your machine to dial your favourite ISP.

You mean an rpm with built-in knowledge of current dialups?
Excellent idea

> It would be most useful to use the distributions' own networking tools

But I didn't think any of them supprted Linux.

> to configure it, or perhaps setup kppp to do the job. As a fallback the
> basics should be used as explained in some howto (I use netcfg..

kppp is brialliant, by far the best I have ever used.
Linuxconf for dialup spec sucks little black toads and must have been
written by someone who plainly did not understand dialup.
Netcfg is much better.

> up initially using a known local free ISP to get setting for your
> prefered ISP, no matter where you are in the world.. (need a bit of help
> for that)

Umm. No problem getting the + codes for everywhere. One of the things
Win95 did really well was the "location" part of DUN. Something kppp
should adopt.

///Peter