[clue-tech] automatic dial-up for web browsing

[Dave Hahn]

pppd with the demand option.  Works great as a single machine or as an on
demand modem connection for a network.


----- Original Message -----
From: <matthew.w.mcillece at lmco.com>
To: <clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us>; <clue-tech at ta8.techangle.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 2:27 PM
Subject: [clue-tech] automatic dial-up for web browsing


> Recently, I had a chance to try one of those I-opener machines that are
sold
> for just web browsing and email.  I didn't like how small the screen was,
> nor the fact that it didn't seem to offer a way to open multiple web
> browsing windows at once, nor the fact that you had to navigate back to a
> certain page in order to enter a new URL.
>
> However, I was impressed with how, once the user entered a URL, the
browser
> would dial-up the ISP, complete the connection, and load the page without
> further input from the user.  I'm suspect that the tools for doing this
> could be found in a standard Linux distribution, but I don't know
> specifically what tools might be able to do this.  Anybody know?
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