From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ppp and other From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-xunezooorxjccryokymwjfsrny" Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:11:04 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cc3fb958-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-xunezooorxjccryokymwjfsrny Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit why not put the parametrised ppp command line in a file and run that? much easier than having yet another configuration file. don't forget to make it mode 700 if it has got passwords in it. --upas-xunezooorxjccryokymwjfsrny Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 1026726865:20:25189:3; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:54:25 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa2102926; 15 Jul 2002 9:54 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.30.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 8E27119AB3; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id BF3BD19A31 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:48:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 17U2F1-0002TP-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:34:03 +0100 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Ben Message-ID: Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: , <20020714175407.5869.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] ppp and other Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:32:09 GMT I can tell that the Bell-Labs guys don't use PPP dialup much. Not a very refined interface for PPP...(no offense intended) Shouldn't it at least use a configuration file to specify phone number, username, password, baud rate, etc. then one could simply use something like: ip/ppp where a seperate config file could be used per host? (Similar to BSD's ppp command) It's much easier that way than specifying that many command switches! --upas-xunezooorxjccryokymwjfsrny--