On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 1:08 AM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> I don't do dialup anymore. But, looking at my old PPP setup (I'm > surprised I still have it), 'dns-addr' is assigned in /etc/ppp/options. > Yeah, there's a lot going on in ppp systems. I was slightly surprised how the old scripts I used for dialup over 20 years (and a different country) ago were still used for LTE modem connections, complete with an even larger set of AT commands to control the device. I still think of AT commands as "Hayes" commands, even though Hayes themselves haven't existed this century. (Dennis Hayes still exists personally, as far as I know, as does his business partner Dale Heatherington - who retired at age 37 in the mid 80s, and seems to have had a great time since then.) I guess ppp will be with us forever. I was pretty impressed that someone managed to implement a ppp wifi modem on the very cheap ESP8266 microcontroller. If you have a serial port, you can now talk (not very fast) over wifi: https://www.tindie.com/products/theoldnet/rs232-serial-wifi-modem-for-vintage-computers-v4/ (there's a github link to the source in there for folks who might build their own) Stewart
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