[indiana-discuss] any PPPoE GUI available?

[Andreas Frische]

Have you considered
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Connect_Solaris_to_BSNL_DataONE
? ( as soon as genunix is up again )

Apparently connecting to a dsl provider is one of the goals of nwam,
but when I asked last month nobody on nwam-discuss was able to tell
me, when to expect this feature.


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at sun.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 23:34 -0800, Alex Peng wrote:
>> I am using OpenSolaris 2008.11.  My only network is ADSL, and I need to
>> change username/password quite often, I don't want to edit
>> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets every time.  Is there any easy GUI to configure PPPoE?
>
> The PPP implementation supports the "passprompt.so" plugin, which allows
> one to use an external application to obtain the PAP password
> interactively (on-demand) instead of looking it up in
> the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file.  You could write a simple dialog that is
> launched using this plugin.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know much about the specifics of how to use it,
> so you'd need to do a little bit of research on your own.
>
> -Seb
>
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