Eznet: A Simpler Way To Do PPP

Last changed: Feb 24, 1999

Eznet is a new program that simplifies PPP setup for Linux. Using eznet, all a user has to do is specify the name of their ISP, a login name, a password and a phone number to dial. Eznet takes care of the rest. There are no configuration files to edit and no chat scripts to design.

Here is what is available:

Additional documentation on eznet.
Download the source code (version 1.11) as a single C source file. (Last updated: Feb 18, 1999)
Download a precompiled binary for Linux with glibc. (30415 bytes)
Download a precompiled binary for Linux with libc5. (39898 bytes)
A nifty Tcl/Tk GUI called "xeznet" written and contributed by Mark Hall. (26203 bytes)

You are encouraged to help with the development of eznet by trying it out on your computer and with your ISP. Our goal is to make eznet a nearly universal solution to setting up PPP under Linux. But every ISP is a little bit different. If you have any problems using eznet, please let us know (by sending email to [email protected]) so that eznet can be extended and improved to cover your particular circumstances. If eznet works for you, please also let us know so that we can begin to compile a list of ISPs for which eznet is known to work.

Recent Changes

Version 1.11	Fixed a bug in which eznet improperly handled passwords containing special characters like "#" and "%". Added the new "wait" command. Works like "up", but doesn't return until the connection goes down.
Version 1.8	Added the "eznet log" command to help debug troublesome hookups. Precompiled binaries added to the distribution.
Version 1.7	The "status" line now reports the ppp device, the local IP address and the remote IP address. Thanks to Steve Snyder for the idea!
Version 1.6	Eznet now tests to insure it is installed in /usr/bin and fails with an error if it is not. The "autostart" property defaults to "yes" instead of "no". Added the "routeN" properties to automatically setup routes to the new network. See the documentation for details. Increased the time allowed for the modem to connect from 40 to 60 seconds. (Some modems require extra time.) This timeout is now configurable using the dialtimeout property.
Version 1.3	Added three new options: "mtu", "mru" and "autostart". See the documentation for details.
Version 1.2	Added support for SpryNet. The login prompts for this service provider are only 7-bit characters. So some of the pattern matching routines were generalized to only look at the bottom 7 bits of each character. The init0= and init1= fields now default to "atz" and "at&d3", respectively.
Version 1.1	Added the "chat=no" option. Added support for AT&T Worldnet.

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