Re: sometimes, red hat sux at a particular aspect (dial-up)

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:47:43PM +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
>   Beeing away from home for Christmas, I took a laptop with me to 
> read/send email.
> 
> This would be the first time for me to connect through dial-up from linux.
> 
> I have finally managed to get it to work, but I had to add routes by 
> hand, specify DNS servers manually, and this sort of stuff.  Why 
> wouldn't rp3 simply work?
> 
> I created the dial-up connections from my regular user account (I typed 
> the root password).
> 
> I have checked all the right options in the Advanced section of 
> rp3-config, yet the default route would not be replaced, and the DNS 
> servers would not be found automatically.
> 
> I know we live in (yet) a Windows world, and that particular provider 
> runs a Windows server (the sucker), but if linux (rp3 or whatever tool, 
> actually) does this crap to less advanced users, it will be a Windows 
> world for a long time.
> 
> Try to explain to some Joe Regular that just wants to look at a random 
> internet site, what a default route is, and you'll make a dedicated 
> Windows user out of him.
> 
> It hurts me :) to have to say that something works better in Windows, 
> but I know Red Hat can do better, that's why I say it.
> 
> Now, on to the  bugzilla duties...
> 
> Yes, I know that dial-up sucks plenty, that's why Red Hat should be able 
> to compensate by better error handling.
> 
I have recently configured the w2k and 7.2 ppp connections.
kppp is as easy as the w2k client. In fact it is somewhat less
obscure.
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