On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 11:22:00AM +1200, John Rye wrote:
> Bob,
>
> A really useful and easy setup routine for us comparitive newbies to the
> world of Linux.
>
> But.......... a couple of queries....
>
> Your refer a couple of times to /etc/ppp/resolv.cnf, is this a typo? I found
> resolc.cnf in /etc.... or do you intend for a ?second? copy in /etc/ppp ?
>
> Working thru your tutorial, I got to generating and testing /etc/ppp/chat-isp.
> problem here is that my ISP uses PAP but appears to expect the login data
> to be streamed in almost immediately without any handshake or prompting
> messages. (Certainly nothing is observed when watching with simple console.)
> The consequence is that the daemon times out.
>
> How does one deal with this situation?
>
> After making the changes you suggest in /etc/ppp/options and generating
> /etc/ppp/peers/isp I proceeded to test using: 'pppd call isp', the dialer
> certainly
> worked but because there's no login the 'ping' of course cannot be carried
> out.
>
> I have fiddled about in chat-isp in the area of the username and password
> lines,
> changing the prompts to blanks etc but without any success.
>
> Any help hints etc would be greatly appreciated else I have to continue using
> this 'other opsys' for my netting.... <grin>
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
>
>
Bob and List,
I had similar problems to the above but the how-to helped clarify the thinking
in our LUG. Our guru, Marco Grigull, came up with the following how-to which
works on all systems here. It is based on using PAP.
Open Linuxconf -> Networking -> PPP/SLIP/PLIP
Click add.
On the Hardware tab verify modem settings and enter the following PPP Options:
ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote noauth demand idle 300(or whatever).
On the Communication tab enter the phone number to dial. Delete all entries
under Chat in the Expect and Send rows.
On the Networking tab check Activate at boot time. Uncheck Restart link when
connection fails(optional). Enter:
Local IP address: 10.0.0.1
Remote IP address: 10.0.0.2
On the PAP tab enter username and password.
Accept and quit all the way out of Linuxconf.
In a term type: ifup ppp0 (or 1 or whatever).
Dial on Demand is running.
Now, in Mutt, when I hit y to send I will get an automatic connection.
HTH.
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