[ale] Dial-in widget for SuSE-11.1

[Tim Watts]

On Saturday 04 July 2009 5:16:42 pm John Mills wrote:
>
> Another question: what setting do I need so PPP also obtains a DNS server?
> I'm currently using a couple that my primary ISP provides, but PPP should
> be able to set this, no?
>

I believe PPP merely provides the "tunnel" to your ISP via the modem. It's 
really sending ethernet frames which in turn contain IP packets and so on up 
the chain. The DHCP exchange with your ISP sets the name servers -- which get 
recorded in /etc/resolv.conf. wvdial has a config file and some scripts that 
are used to update resolv.conf. And IIRC kinternet uses these same scripts. 
There may be a hook to allow you to have a say in the matter or you may have 
to tweak the scripts (yeesh). Check out man kinternet, wvdial and resolv.conf.

BTW, I think you can only have 3 name servers declared.


> TIA.
>
>   - Mills
>
> On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Tim Watts wrote:
> > wvdial is your friend.
> >
> > Would NetworkManager also handle this? On KDE it's knetworkmanager. Not
> > sure what the Gnome equiv is.
>
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