PyPPP aka PPP Controller

What?

GUI frontend to the pppd call PEER command. :) It does NOT handle ppp configuration. It's merely a fancy way to execute pppd call SOMETHING and check the link status afterwards.

It is supposed to resemble tkppp (by Eric Jeschke), which we were using for a while

Why?

$ ps -ef | grep tkppp dron 2939 1212 0 18:54 pts/1 00:00:01 wish /usr/bin/tkppp dron 3013 2876 0 18:57 pts/2 00:00:00 grep tkppp $ cat /proc/2939/status | grep RSS VmRSS: 101268 kB $ ps -ef | grep pppc dron 3018 1212 5 18:57 pts/1 00:00:00 python2.2 ./pppc.py dron 3021 2876 0 18:57 pts/2 00:00:00 grep pppc $ cat /proc/3018/status | fgrep RSS VmRSS: 8652 kB

Yes, I know, it's distribution problem, not tkppp, but...

Status?

Sat Jul 3 23:30:14 PDT 2004

Public Beta testing. If you really want to try it, you can get binary-only version here: http: / / d726f6e.freeshell.org / projects / pppc / pppc-0.7-1D.noarch.rpm (yes, it's RPM only, and it's not "clickable" link). Attention! Please remove space characters around forward slashes to get the real URL. Note: source code is NOT included, please let me know if you need it.

Thu Feb 26 13:12:38 PST 2004

NDA :) testing finished. If you want to give it a try -- just let me know. Attention! It is NOT an open source project yet (since this is still a beta version). Although you will get the source code, you will NOT be allowed to redistribute it with or without modifications. The release will be GPLed, of course.

Sat Nov 15 19:14:28 PST 2003

Early alpha. Which means it does work for me. Sometimes. :) Some functions are still missing. Those are not critical, though.

Multimedia

Connection status ('modem' connection, well, cell phone, actually).

Another connection status window (PPTP VPN link)

Establishing connection. (12) stands for the number of seconds elapsed so far.

Aborting connection attempt after the timeout. (34) stands for total number of seconds elapsed.

Idle.