[indiana-discuss] any PPPoE GUI available?

Alex Peng Alex.Peng at Sun.COM
Tue Dec 9 00:24:25 PST 2008


An update.

gnome-ppp is not the correct PPPoE GUI.

-Alex





> 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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