On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:28:53AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > I am still trying to migrate to Debian from RedHat but having little > > success. After many tries I finally got X and GNOME working, now I am > > trying to get the networking going, in particular ppp. I tried various > > things already but without success, and right now I am about all out of > > ideas wht to try next, thus any help is appreciated. > > > > I want to set up ppp such that it dials on demand. I have this working > > on my RedHat system and figured I should be able to do the same on > > Debian. Thus I copied > > > > /etc/ppp/options > > /etc/ppp/pap-secrets > > /etc/ppp/chap-script > > /etc/resolv.conf > > /etc/hosts > > /etc/hosts.deny > > /etc/hosts.allow > > > > > Not sure if this copying is a good idea. Have you tried pppconfig? >
pppconfig is the simplest and easiest tool to set up a connection. and after you set it up, you only need to know two commands to use it - pon <connection_name> and poff <connection_name>. or if you have a permanent connection, you can write a simple script to dial out when the line drops. /resolv.conf contains only the name of your nameservers - not much involved in inputting that manually. same goes for the hosts files. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
