WvDial

WvDial
Original author(s) Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun
Stable release 1.61 / September 19, 2009
Operating system Linux
Type Internet
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website alumnit.ca

WvDial (pronounced 'weave-dial'[1]) is a utility that helps in making modem-based connections to the Internet that is included in some Linux distributions.[2] WvDial is a Point-to-Point Protocol dialer: it dials a modem and starts pppd in order to connect to the Internet. It uses the wvstreams library.[3]

WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into a server, alleviating the need to write a login script.[4]

Graphical frontends

There are some GUI tools which allows using WvDial:

See also

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, February 18, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.