Re: Initiating a PPP connection
Re: Initiating a PPP connection
- Subject: Re: Initiating a PPP connection
- From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:47:54 +0100
On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 11:22 , Ondra Cada wrote:
Glen Simmons (GS) wrote at Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:27:07 -0600:
GS> I need to be able to initiate a PPP connection and specify the phone
GS> number, name and password. It looks like this could be done by
sending
GS> AEs to the Internet Connect application, but I'd prefer not to have
to
GS> launch it. I'm sure there's a way to do this, since the Internet
Connect
GS> menu can, but is it public?
"man pppd" is, I guess, what you are after.
If you're accessing pppd directly, you're ignoring the whole System
Configuration facilities provided by the system, which could mess up the
networking (and most likely IC wouldn't display that connection). I'd
rather not recommend doing that.
andy
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