Dmitry Pogosyan wrote:
> IAs well, I want to add support to an idea expressed few days ago by somebody:
>
> Should we more think about automating configuration, rather than just
> about GUI part ? Question is, who is the projected customer of
> the application ? If, as I think, this is a fairly novice Linux user
> (in a sense, not an exprienced network manager) with a couple of computers
> at home - then most important for him is that any new program he
> installs works (or almost works) 'out of the box'.
>
> I myslef would be happy if there was a (debugged) library of
> standard configurations (and filters) I could just copy (or choose in
> GUI menu) in the first instance. And hopefully forget about
> diald configuration forever.
>
A very good point. This would solve 90% of all problems. Since it makes no
difference to diald whether the linux box has any internal network attached to
it, the only site-specific differences that need to be addressed are really ppp
configuration issues. In diald itself the only crucial factors are whether the
IP address is dynamic or static at each end. Sensible defaults could be adopted
for all the other params.
NB. I think the standard.filter supplied as a default ought to have all possible
netbios packets explicitly ignored, and the tcp fin should be ignored as well.
Just addressing those two would reduce the traffic on this list quite a bit I'd
say. Relatively few people will want to enable routing of netbios packets over
the dialup link, and even then a brief comment in standard.filter about the
subject would do the trick.
IMO, the greatest possible contribution to easing people's introduction to
setting up dialup networking on demand would be to provide a setup script for
ppp, and to ship diald preconfigured to work with the output frmo this utility.
Like SuSE did with suseppp configuration before they axed it :o(
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