From: David Masterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I'm using a plain RH5.0 system (no Metro-X or CDE).
>
>Anyone using the "Usernet" GUI program to start up and shutdown PPP?
>How does it determine if the PPP connection is successfully started?
>
>I have two PPP connections configured on my system that I setup with
>the netconfig tool under root and, since I'm the only one on this
>system, I was looking for a way to bring one up without logging into
>the root account. I had already been using the 'usernetctl' command
>to do this at the command line, but I happened to stumble on the
>'Usernet' menu option under Programs/Networking of the AnotherLevel
>user interface and tried it out (why isn't there a RedHat User's
>Manual to go with the RedHat Installation Manual??). When I click on
>one of the PPP buttons, it successfully brings up the PPP interface,
>but the status button only goes from Red to Yellow and not Green.
>Anyone know how stable this tool is? Also, considering that netconfig
>was written in Python, why wasn't this tool? Finally, the MAN page
>for usernet could be written better (does it use usernetctl to start
>PPP? does it use the ifcfg scripts? does it have any side effects?).
>
There is a bug in Usernet. Check the Intel Errata (not listed in the General
Errata). The patched version works fine.
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