PPP vs wvdial was : Results from WVDIAL

maxim wexler blissfix at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 29 15:45:32 UTC 2006



--- Patrick Newberry <PNewberry at habitat.org> wrote:

> After being told by one person that wvdial was not
> the best way to go, I
> went to using the pppconfig option and to use pon
> and poff. I was told
> wvdial is "flaky" compared to ppp
> 
> Question when I put in my isp id in the secrets
> file, should it be myid
> or myid at myisp.com?

Don't understand. If you're using pppconfig you
shouldn't have to edit any file. At the end of the
session you scroll to 'write files' and hit <enter>.

FWIW, my isp is listed *in full*. And I never needed
to write any other files to get ppp to work.

-mw

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