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* Mark Kirkwood <markir@××××××××××××.nz> wrote: |
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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. |
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You could simply ping some fixed IPs somewhere in the wide world. |
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But I'm not shure if you really want such an quite uncontrollable |
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automatic dialup or probably some button for "Dialup"/"Hangup" on |
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the desktop ? For that way you need some way of privilege switching |
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(w/o password). "su-wrapper" (not yet in portage) is your friend :) |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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