How do i make an auto-connection to the net?

[cinogen]

hello all

i am very pleased by my knoppix 3.4 hd install
and i can connect to the net , i just run the dsl/pppoe tool and i put the pass word and username , but i need to press alot of o.k.'s and the procedure is dumb to do every time i wanna connect ..
how can i make it to auto-connect or make a dialer if it is possible like in xp ..or do i have to script this?

[DuckDodgers]

The best and easiest way to do this would be to purchase and install a router.

[shah]

To connect automatically to net everytime you boot your computer simply put a symlink to ppp on /etc/rc5.d. You don't need to set your pppoeconf again.

To create the symlink type this on root shell:
update-rc.d ppp defaults

Reboot your system, and see if you can directly connect to net.

[user unknown]

I don't connect by boot, because I have a volume-account, and sometimes I use another pc to connect to the internet.

Therefore I have to issue the command

pon

to connect, and

poff

to disconnect.
Not much work but fully in control.

To see the connection state, I use

pppstatus -d 10

which opens a connection-window on tty10.
A nice graphical tool for similar purpose is allin1 - a very small load/cpu/traffic - monitor.