Re: SEUL: ezppp sucks rocks

["Ken D'Ambrosio" <kend@Summa4.COM>]

Well, actually, all the "control-panel" does is call a python script named
netcfg.  netcfg then has various sub-sections for network interfaces
(nicely done, I'll grant).  I do have one major complaint with it, though:
it doesn't necessarily give valid information, eg. it may think that your
PPP link is up when it isn't.  Or, worse yet, if (like I do) you've got a
small network in your house, and you've got netcfg running from more than
one computer, only the computer that brings up the PPP connection can
bring it down.  Though the OTHER computer THINKS it can.  *sigh*  Might
poke at the code some; Python's reasonably friendly.  Nevertheless, in
terms of one-user, newbie-type use, I think it does a remarkably good job,
and should probably be at least considered as "the" PPP client for SEUL
purposes.  Remember, all -- there's ALWAYS going to be a "better" way to
do something, but we've also got to make it nice 'n easy if we want to
make true inroads into the "Joe User" market.  The True Way will always be
there, lying underneath, if/when they feel curious.

My $.000002 worth,

Ken
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Ken D'Ambrosio                                       kend@summa4.com
NetAdmin, Summa Four, Inc.                             kena@well.com

On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, TheBong Pipe wrote:

> 
> >Why does everyone have to get so damned cute when it comes to PPP.  PPP
> >setup under linus is SO SIMPLE if you approach it properly.
> >
> In RedHat Distributions PPP is ,in fact, the easiest part to configure.. 
> You need an X-based prog called the "Control Panel". It does these 
> things for you with a frindly interface.
> --- Problem --- When I learned to configure PPP myself, it stopped 
> working.. :(
> 
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