Re: [Sheflug] Question on ISPs

["Foz" <nospam [at] mmu.ac.uk>]

> insgen.cgi will contain all the information needed to configure kppp, for
> example[1]. It will have the user name, password, dial-up number, and some
> information on the name-servers and DNS servers. A lot of the dial-up
> stuff will be detected automatically though (such as IP address, etc.), so
> a lot of it you will be able to throw away. Have a bash, though, most of
> it should be pretty obvious. Once you've got the number, a user name and
> password you should at least be able to get a connection going ;)
> 
> 
> [1]: Of course, you can take the Turnbull approach, go through all the man
> pages and configure it all by hand ;)))

Erm... Is there a way to get it done automaticallly - i.e. for those 
people who *don't* have kppp? It would be good to cater for as many people 
as possible. And to give a user-freindly look to yet another area would be 
I think beneficial to would be Linux users :)

Cheers

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