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Qtopia Network Services

Introduction

Qtopia Network Services are defined by files that allow the configuration of Linux system networking services.

How it works

Network Service Files are standard Qtopia Config files. They have three groups, with the following keys:

The NetworkInterface class defines the interface for plugins. Two plugins are provided with Qtopia: "dialup" and "lan", which configure pppd and ethernet respectively.

The dialup plugin

The dialup plugin configures PPPD peer files. It has the following keys in the Network Service Config file. Most are self-explanatory or documented in the pppd documentation:

The field names supported by the Hide and ReadOnly keys are below. Note that entire tabs can be hidden by adding the tab name to Hide.

The lan plugin

The lan plugin configures the PCMCIA networking files network.opts, wlan-ng.opts, and wireless.opts. It has the following keys in the Network Service Config file. Most are self-explanatory or documented in the PCMCIA documentation:

The Hide and ReadOnly keys are not supported at this time.

Some Linux distributions ship network.opts, wlan-ng.opts, and wireless.opts with many partial configurations. These will override all settings created by Qtopia, which inserts its configurations before the final "*,*,*,*)" catch-all configuration.

The Proxies page

The dialup and lan plugins share a Proxies page. The settings for this page are in the Config as:


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