[ILUG] [OT] Access for field agents ...

[Dave Airlie]

Well for dialup remotely, Esat Net traveller is what I use, as long as you
feck about with it you can get Linux to use PPP and dial-up I hear...

I use windows because of that bloody VPN software we have is Win only..

Dave.


On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 ciaran.mccabe at itg.ie wrote:

> Well it had to happen.  Finally someone noticed that our roving laptop
> users were costing a small fortune dialing Ireland from
> States/UK/France... so now want to source a provider for global pops
> with full internet access.  Unfortunatley they are all M$ users so will
> probably happily agree on a solution with a wonderful click'n'pray
> system taht launches then straight into a portal of some sort.
> However, the decision has not yet been made so I have a chance to make
> this decision include a linux friendly brief for those of us who prefer
> to run a stable os on a laptop ;-)
> Soo.. I'm looking for peoples experiences/comments on solutions that
> they are using(1) or intend to use in the near future please.
> Replies offlist if this is not considered "on-topic" enough.
>
> Regards,
> Ciaran.
>
> (1) Is Compuserve an option here??
>
>

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David Airlie, Software Engineer
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