Re: OT: VSNL as compared to other ISPs

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

Binand Raj S. rearranged electrons thusly:

> Hmm... I seem to be having great fun nitpicking from Suresh's posts... ;-)
 
there are at least _some_ fine ways to enjoy life - nitpicking is one :)

> If by chat, you mean the kind of login-password authentication ISPs do,
> then yes, wvdial does that. It can intelligently detect login and password
> prompts from ISPs and send that info across.
 
I do.

> Of course, wvdial appends the login id and password present in its
> configuration file to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (or chap-secrets) so that
> this difference is not all that obvious to the general user.
 
This is correct - and as far as dialups are concerned, I am a general user
(though I _have_ seen signs of wvdial inserting stuff in /etc/ppp) :)

	-s

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