Fedora 4, have to reconfigure Internet settings evertime I acces the internet

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article

Stuff with technical details may often seem this way. Once you learn what is going on, this becomes much more simple - still remember that the guy who was root on the system at school wasn't a newbie, and had some months of experience to be able to configure and run the UNIX systems.

Please remember that microsoft has terribly blurred the concept of user and system applications - because it is at heart a single user single thread system. Thus, Outlook (which Evoultion is trying to mimic as close as possible) or LookOut Express has to control the operating system, bringing up the network connection if needed. In UNIX, this is simply not acceptable because it's a multi-user system. We can't have J. Random User poking about the system to the detriment of other users. Thus, tasks that can effect other users are restricted - generally to the 'root' user. In Linux (and *BSD) as found in the home, it is often the same (only) user, and thus the distributions have supplied tools (a bewildering number of them) to allow a user to do some tasks, such as bringing the system up and down (a task that would NEVER be allowed on your school system), mount and umount removable media, and bringing up-down that dial-in connection and so on.

That is one way. There are also helper tools that can be run from your desktop. Still another way is that set of scripts I showed. Those can with a minor change be run out of the startup scripts, such that the connection daemon (pppd) starts, but runs in the background, and only brings up the link (automagically) when there is Internet traffic, and brings down the link after an idle period. For a while, I ran my home systems that way. I'm on broadband now, and rarely use the modem, but it's still set up as a backup link (I have three ISPs for various reasons).

Old guy