Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:54:26 -0700 (MST) From: Jeremy Chatfield <jdc@crab.xinside.com> To: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alex R.N. Wetmore) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Plug-n-Play Internet acccess (was Re: httpd as part of the Message-ID: <199503281554.IAA17389@crab.xinside.com> In-Reply-To: <YjS22fO00iUyE1Ul5k@andrew.cmu.edu> from "Alex R.N. Wetmore" at Mar 28, 95 09:43:55 am
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Alex R.N. Wetmore writes:
>
> Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-hackers: 28-Mar-95 Re:
> Plug-n-Play Internet ac.. by Brian Tao@gate.sinica.ed
> > * SLIP/PPP over dialup: The user should be able to run a
> > configuration utility (using either dialog or lynx as the front
> > end) that asks them for the ISP's name, phone number, connection
> > rate, host IP address, gateway IP and nameserver IP. It would be
> > great if we could somehow have an autolearn script that watches how
> > a user initiates a session, but this might be infeasible. With
> > this minimal set of information, the user should be able to connect
> > their FreeBSD box and do simple things like ping, telnet or ftp to
> > some other host on the Internet. Both static and dynamic IP
> > addresses should be supported.
>
> I think Windows NT handles this very gracefully. For those who haven't
> seen it, basically you fill out a dialog box with the above information
...
Seyon will do some of this work, from an X Session. You get buttons,
scripts per target system, etc. Worth checking out, I think.
Cheers, JeremyC.
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