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I'm looking at setting up a Gentoo box for my mother to use. One thing |
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I'd like some input on is the business of dialing up. |
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The constraints are that she must be able to dial up as an unprivileged |
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user, and it must be easy (She will be migrating from an old imac |
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running osx, so I want to make it as painless as possible!) |
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I'm currently favoring the method outlined in: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_Dialup_Connection#The_best_way:_Gentoo.27s_Network_Configuration |
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specifically using Gentoo's /etc/conf.d/net with pppd configured for |
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*on-demand* dialing, so it 'just happens' when needed. |
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Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I |
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find myself doing stuff like: |
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$ ping <ip of ISP nameserver> |
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or similar, because hostname access will just return "host not found" |
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immediately without trying to bring the link up. So while this |
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workaround is ok for me, I would like to get it so that the ppp |
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interface comes up more intuitively (or am I missing something |
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obvious?... that would be nice!). |
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regards |
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Mark |
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