Re: tlug: ibm.net with LINUX (Red Hat)

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

> iPass did a presentation with us a couple of months back, and I need to
> translate that into Japanese and send it on to management.  At the time
????Must be a bureaucratic Internet provider. Management. Yuck !
I just talked with the crew at OberlandNet and then things were
set. But we take a lot of pride NOT to be bureaucratic and very
flexible.
> I met with the them, they said that the iPass dialer was not available
> in a Linux version, and they didn't seem to have any plans of releasing
> one.  Has that changed, or is there a work-around?
As far as I understand the dialler is just a convenience to find
you the most close by dial-in point. You can, however, look that
up in a list by hand as well and then doing the dialling in
yourself. The only difference is that you add your domain to
your login name and the rest works just the same way as usual.
If your authenticator ( normally radius ) finds a domain name it
just does the authentication using Ipass instead of locally. For
that they give you a patch for the radius server.

I personally consider their dialler typical stuff for lusers. If
you made it towards Linux you most probably don't want it
anyway.

I'll make it happen as soon as possible. At the moment, however,
I set up a new mail server using qmail. Originally sendmail was
planned, but I caused a switch to qmail. Sendmail IMHO is to
damn full of security risks and not exactly easy to configure.
In short, it sucks. If you've ever used qmail, you'll NEVER go
back to sendmail - particularly if you've read the latest issue
of PHRACK. 

Our old mailserver runs under NT and causes no end of trouble.
This thing simply MUST disappear.

NT is a great OS if you're paid for maintaining it by someone
else. Makes you rich in no time. However, if you intend to make
money with your own system running NT, it makes you poor in no
time.

                                    Karl-Max Wagner
                                    karlmax@example.com
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