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PROGRAM:

NAME

wvdial - PPP dialer with built-in intelligence.

SYNOPSIS

wvdial [ OPTIONS ] [ SECTION ] ...

DESCRIPTION

wvdial is an intelligent PPP dialer, which means that it dials a modem and starts PPP in
order to connect to the Internet. It is something like the chat(8) program, except that
it uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into your server rather than forcing you
to write a login script.

When wvdial starts, it first loads its configuration from /etc/wvdial.conf and ~/.wvdialrc
which contains basic information about the modem port, speed, and init string, along with
information about your Internet Service Provider (ISP), such as the phone number, your
username, and your password.

Then it initializes your modem and dials the server and waits for a connection (a CONNECT
string from the modem). It understands and responds to typical connection problems (like
BUSY and NO DIALTONE).

Any time after connecting, wvdial will start PPP if it sees a PPP sequence from the
server. Otherwise, it tries to convince the server to start PPP by doing the following:

· responding to any login/password prompts it sees;

· interpreting “choose one of the following”-style menus;

· eventually, sending the word “ppp” (a common terminal server command).

If all of this fails, wvdial just runs pppd(8) and hopes for the best. It will bring up
the connection, and then wait patiently for you to drop the link by pressing CTRL-C.

OPTIONS

Several options are recognized by wvdial.

-c, --chat
Run wvdial as a chat replacement from within pppd, instead of the more normal
method of having wvdial negotiate the connection and then call pppd.

-C, --config=CONFIGFILE
Run wvdial with CONFIGFILE as the configuration file, instead of /etc/wvdial.conf.
This is mainly useful only if you want to have per-user configurations, or you want
to avoid having dial-up information (usernames, passwords, calling card numbers,
etc.) in a system wide configuration file.

-n, --no-syslog
Don't output debug information to the syslog daemon (only useful together with
--chat).

wvdial is normally run without command line options, in which case it reads its
configuration from the [Dialer Defaults] section of /etc/wvdial.conf. (The configuration
file is described in more detail in wvdial.conf(5) manual page.)

One or more SECTIONs of /etc/wvdial.conf may be specified on the command line. Settings
in these sections will override settings in [Dialer Defaults].

For example, the command:
wvdial phone2
will read default options from the [Dialer Defaults] section, then override any or all of
the options with those found in the [Dialer phone2] section.

If more than one section is specified, they are processed in the order they are given.
Each section will override all the sections that came before it.

For example, the command:
wvdial phone2 pulse shh
will read default options from the [Dialer Defaults] section, then override any or all of
the options with those found in the [Dialer phone2] section, followed by the [Dialer
pulse] section, and lastly the [Dialer shh] section.

Using this method, it is possible to easily configure wvdial to switch between different
internet providers, modem init strings, account names, and so on without specifying the
same configuration information over and over.

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