[indiana-discuss] any PPPoE GUI available?

Alex Peng Alex.Peng at Sun.COM
Wed Dec 3 18:09:14 PST 2008


Thanks guys.

I will try gnome-ppp first (which can be found from SFE as 
SFEgnome-ppp-pkg), if it works, work with desktop guys to integrate it 
into /contrib or /dev repository.   If it doesn't work, then I will work 
my own dial-up GUI.

nwam is the next step.  Don't know their road map.

-Alex


于 2008年12月03日 23:08, Andreas Frische 写道:
> 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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