Alternatives that don´t suck?

[dan]

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 01:03:21 Leon Goldstein wrote:
> My first experience with configuring kppp was with Caldera eDesk 2.4.  I
> remember I was apprehensive, but I just followed the instructions in the
> excellent printed manual that came with eDesk 2.4 and it worked.  From
> then on I found no difficulty with Kppp (other than, as I mentioned,
> with Corel Linux -  a Debian based distro - and Debian 4.0) but rather
> found configuring Netscape/Mozilla to set up e-mail much more elaborate.
I never tried Caldera, wish I had as it seems a lot of folks on this list ran 
it at one time or another. When I moved to the UK and was setting up my 
computer I decided to buy CD's rather than to download via dialup and at the 
local store only SuSE and Corel were available.  I bought SuSE and had 
problems getting kppp to work then. I seem to remember, when I moved to RH 7.0
that kppp worked ok, but I still liked wvdial better. When I switched to 
Debian kppp never worked right for me.  Then we got cable.
I seem to recall within the past month a couple of kppp problems on the debian 
user list, so I guess it's still an issue.

> Libranet Debian was also a delight, owing to its Adminmenu - a
> collection of Perl scripts - that had a simple and elegant  dialup
> configuration. (Sigh)
I ran Libranet on an old HP box that has since been retired. I liked it, it 
was easy to set up and maintain.

Kind Regard,
Dan