Laptop Networking, NetworkManager, ifupdown ---> Merge them?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sat Jan 8 21:10:27 CST 2005


On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:57:22AM +0100, Frederic Peters wrote:

> We just had a discussion on our local (Brussels) LUG about PPPoE
> configuration and the current lack of tools (besides pppoeconf).
> I planned to look at NetworkManager and see how I could add PPPoE
> support but it was on the premise it was going to be used by Ubuntu.
> 
> How did the situation evolve ?
> 
> I think a safe bet would be a GTK+ version of pppoeconf; it wouldn't
> be much difficult and could hopefully be integrated in whatever tool
> get choosen later.

For PPPoE configuration, gnome-system-tools would be the way to go.
I'm not sure whether it already supports it.

-- 
 - mdz



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