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Re: Holy shit!
I know what you mean by "behind the shiny GUI". I was listening to a radio show (supposedly the longest running computer-oriented show, "SoundBytes", on WHAM 1180 in Rochester, NY) about a guy who was having problems w/ his Internet connection. I knew precisely that he had to remove any gateway declaration in his networking configuration files ("GATEWAY=" in either /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 on RHL/FC systems) and make sure pppd starts with "defaultroute" as an option, but with all kinds of GUIs and TUIs for networking, it would have been tough to tell this guy how to get things done. Virtually everyone who uses these GUI frontends has no clue whatsoever what's behind them (the ip(8) and pppd(8) commands). If they did, it'd be relatively easy to fix this sort of problem.
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