WvDial (pronounced 'weave-dial'[1]) is a utility that helps in making modem-based connections to the Internet that is included in some Linux distributions.

[2] WvDial is a Point-to-Point Protocol dialer: it dials a modem and starts pppd in order to connect to the Internet.

[4] WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into a server, alleviating the need to write a login script.

[5] There are some GUI tools which allows using WvDial: Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-05-04) This Unix-related article is a stub.

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