router question

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Hmm... I remember hearing about some crackful protocol that Windows can 
speak to firewalls saying "please open a hole up for me now". Perhaps 
that has the effect of initiating a connection over ADSL, though I 
thought ADSL modems tried to run always-connected. If you can find out 
what needs to be done, and document it in the wiki as a feature 
proposal, we can take a view on supporting it for a future release.

baza wrote:

> Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Define "Make an internet connection". Judging by your mail it is not
>> simply bringing up interfaces or a PPPOE/PPTP connection.
>>  
>>
> I connect to the net via a Netgear ADSLmodem/Router.  Warty sets up a 
> link to the router ok, gets a ip address on my local area network, but 
> it does not set up a connection to my ISP. It's the latter I'd like 
> Warty to do while it's booting if possible.
>
> Baza
>