[plug] Keep losing my route to ISP

[Matt Kemner]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Phil Steege wrote:

> xhost +

You don't ever want to run "xhost +"

You have now given everybody on the 'net access to your X server

Granted - they need to go through your firewall first, but it is a very
bad idea nontheless

You probably shouldn't use kppp on your firewall anyway - better off write
a quick shell script that runs pppd with the appropriate arguments

eg mine says:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/pppd connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/WASP.Chat' 115200
/dev/ttyS1 modem crtscts -bsdcomp $* user zombie defaultroute

with WASP.Chat containing:

""
ATZ
OK
ATDT92040100
CONNECT

and pap-secrets containing my username & password

Then you can just run that script from the command line.

 - Matt