RE: GNOME and PPP - suggestions for way forward

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

The windows DUN that they're referring to is probably the Win9x version.  It
is a folder that can only hold dialup-networking items.  Each item holds
certain information:
the phone number, 
user name, 
password (optionally cached), 
DNS/WINS as necessary, 
IP address (if static),
authentication protocol (CHAP, PAP, MSCHAP, Login, etc.)
initialization script (the stuff to start the PPP connection if it doesn't
do that automatically),
modem initialization string,
port/modem to use,
data encryption,
software compression,
allowed network protocols,
You have the ability to alter all of these settings, but before you can do
that you have to create the DUN connection.  This is managed by way of a
"Wizard".  Basically, you tell it what to call the connection, give it the
phone number and choose the modem, and then you're done.  It defaults to the
most common options, PPP server, log on to network, enable compression, and
all available protocols bound to the PPP adapter.  Any more questions about
it?
	Greg.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: bratsche@dfw.net [mailto:bratsche@dfw.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 4:48 PM
> To: James Green
> Subject: Re: GNOME and PPP - suggestions for way forward
> 
> 
> 
> It has menu items for raising and lowering links. I think the 
> best thing
> would be for the 'lower link' menu item to cancel the 
> connection. It may
> already do this, actually. If not then it would be very easy 
> to add this
> functionality.
> 
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, James Green wrote:
> 
> > Good, I'm glad to hear that. Does it also contain a 
> 'cancel' button to
> > halt the script? There's nothing worse than a stray click 
> forcing you
> > on-line to pay that minimum connect fee...
> 
> I do not know what you are talking about when you refer to the Windows
> DUN. You'll have to explain this more fully to me. I don't know about
> checking the connection speed after you're logged in either. If such a
> feature exists in pppd, it would be nice to add it to 
> libgnome_ppp. Jay
> Painter is the author and maintainer of libgnome_ppp.
> 
> > I think basing it on the Windows DUN version for a start 
> would be good.
> > Does anyone know if you can periodically get pppd to tell 
> you the current
> > connect speed? A negotiation speed of 52k will often drop 
> to 50k to 58k
> > during the call remember. Such a detail would be good.
> 
> 
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