[lug] International ISPs for Travelers

[Nate Duehr]

I think you can change the behaviour of some of the DHCP clients in
Linux to *not* overwrite /etc/resolv.conf -- is that what's causing you
problems?

Are you using pump or something else?

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:13:10PM -0700, Ferdinand P. Schmid wrote:
> I almost never use dial-up under Windows.  So my statement regarding Earthlink
> was valid for Linux.  They do assign you a dynamic IP address, but that's it.
> Everything else you can do as you please.  You can even ssh into dialed up
> systems.  I had no problems initiating ssh connections from my laptop in Europe
> to my systems in the US.  No proprietary software needed to connect, just plain
> vanilla ppp on Linux.
> 
> Ferdinand
> 
> Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> > Or a VPN client that overwrites even DHCP.  Cisco's stuff does this
> > properly under NT.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:14:38AM -0800, Glenn Ashton wrote:
> > >
> > > This might be slightly off topic, but...
> > >
> > > Recently we have experienced problems with our international dial up isp
> > > that our traveling executives use to connect to the internet while on the
> > > road.
> > >
> > > Most of these problems stem from the fact that the ISP is trying to
> > > moderate all sorts of things via DHCP using their proprietary dialer
> > > software that wacks our dns settings needed for VPN.
> > >
> > > What I'd love to know if there is any Linux friendly international dial-up
> > > provider (assuming that Linux folks would be less likely to try to fool
> > > with stuff) that will give us straight dialup internet
> > > connections.
> > >
> > > -Glenn Ashton
> > >
> > >
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