"Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I am a beginner and have 2 questions: > 1) I configured my DSL from Verizon from root, by using the Roariing > Penguin software but when I go to my user account I am not able > to connect as I dont have the adsl-start utility. > Will I need to redo the process I did for root for every user account > i create ?
You should run adsl-start as one of your boot scripts. I believe the roaring penguin distribution has an ADSL boot script. You can also write a ppp script that connects to dsl and calls pppoe. This is what I am doing and it works quite well. Then once you have a boot script to start pppoe, you can then use the ip-up.d and ip-down.d in /etc/ppp to do all kinds of things---start and stop the firewall, run the exim queue, etc. Once it all works, it is very nice. I believe you can also run a firewall through pppoe, but I don't know how good it is. Until or if you choose not to go with a boot script, I believe you will need to be root to run adsl-start, or else you need to put all the adsl stuff in a ppp group (dip, I think) and then put the users in group dip. I think that would work too. Brian
