On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
> > By the way am I the only one who resents that Dial-up users are
> > treated like second class users not only by RedHat but by about every
> > Linux distribution? We are in 1999, Linux distributions have been
> > available since 1993 and from the start there was one distinguishing
> > point between Linux and Unix: Linux was affordable by private
> > individuals and that meant a significant amount of its users would be
> > home users connected through dial up networking. However after six
> > years we still have the red carpet being unrolled before the ethernet
> > user and to hell with the private user: only the LAN user gets network
> > configuration at install time, no effort is made for coping with
> > situations inherent to non-permenent acces to the net, PPP is not
> > tested and RedHat issues a network config tool who doesn't allow the
> > user to autoconfigure DNS. The PPPd daemon is able to ask the ISP's
> > daemon what is the DNS to use if only it is strted with the right
> > parms. The only thing lacking is a nice little button in the config
> > tool telling to configure PPP for using this feature.
> >
>
> Yes I fully agree, sometimes I think "what if I were a newbie user which wants
> to connect to the internet using RH 6.1 ? " ... no way !
> not to mention the crashes of netscape, which now crashes almost every 5min.
>
I was big time dailup user, even before ppp was mainstream. Compared to
today I have found the setup to be far easier back then. I think the
massive amount of dailup utilities only confuses the newbie. And it
doesn't help when redhat avoids the issue during install.
I've always thought that perhaps a layer of abstraction should be put over
the modem when used for ppp. The system could think of it too as a
network device and configuration would be hanlded by the kernel. But
something in the back of my head tells me this is evil...
Anyway, my dailup concerns have long since disappeared due to college. :)
Alex
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