From kde-devel  Fri Jun 25 11:59:10 1999
From: Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:59:10 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Daemon for managing dialup internetconnections
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93031194406356

"Bjoern.Kahl" wrote:
> 
>  (3) is no problem, I think. You may specify any command and its
>      parameters in NetMgrs configfile. We can use kppp to setup
>      how dialing works (which serial-port etc (I never tried kppp))

I thought you wanted to stay independent of the dialer ? Everbody should
be free to choose the dialer as long as it offers some interface to run,
e.g. a command line argument.

>      and use Matt Kossīs kmc-module (see his mail) to let NetMgr
>      know how to use this kppp-configured dail-methode (I assume,
>      kppp donīt hit the pppX-netdevice directly, but runs pppd in
>      someway (shell-script?)).

Yes. It simply launches pppd with the appropriate arguments.

Harri.