WvDial
Computer program for assisting modem connections
Original author(s) | Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun |
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Stable release | 1.61 / September 19, 2009 |
Repository |
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Operating system | Linux |
Type | Internet |
License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
Website | alumnit.ca at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-05-04) |
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.[3] It uses the wvstreams library.[4]
WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into a server, alleviating the need to write a login script.[5]
Graphical frontends
There are some GUI tools which allows using WvDial:
- GNOME-PPP, a GUI dialer for GNOME
- kppp, a GUI dialer for KDE
- pyWvDial, a dialer based on PyGTK
- QtWvDialer based on Qt, by Matthias Toussaint
- x-wvdial, that uses xmessage[6][7]
See also
- Hayes command set
- ifconfig
- NetworkManager
- pppconfig
- Point-to-Point Protocol daemon
- USB modem
References
External links
Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-05-04)
- wvdial Email list
- WvDial FAQ
- "wvdial". Freecode.
- "x-wvdial". Freecode.
wvdial(1)
– Linux User Commands Manualwvdialconf(1)
– Linux User Commands Manualwvdial.conf(5)
– Linux File Formats Manual- Using wvdial with a SecurID one-shot password
- Chestnut, an alternative dialer
- eznet, an alternative to WvDial
- OpenNMS Notification usage example
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