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Congrats on ur success story!!!
Well it would be nice if u could share the details in more
detail with others.
Sripuram Dheeraj
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 7:40
PM
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Success Story
Hi all,
I feel very happy to announce that after such a
long period of trials and
R'ring TFM, I finally managed to "net-enable" my
linux system.
Now I can log into my Roltanet as well as VSNL accounts
without modifying
any files, simply by using the "call" option of pppd.
Although the act
itself did not take more than 30mins this morning, it has
behind it a
history of month long doc-searching. Now it seems so simple ...
all I have
to do is create a /etc/ppp/peers/<isp> file and a
corresponding
/etc/ppp/<isp-dialer> script and I can log on to any
damn ISP! And of
course, there are the PAP/CHAP secrets that have to be
supplied. Long live
the F Manual and long live the wonderful tradition of
RTFM!
One important thing is the timeouts in the chat scripts ... I had
been
working with a value of only 30 seconds, and predictably, the
connection
would get killed since the modem was still trying to configure
the
connection. There were no messages in the /var/log/messages about
any
timeouts occuring - I realized that only when I inspected the
timestamps of
the start and stop messages.
Also in the initial
connection setup, the Roltanet server would agree to
PAP, but failed to
authenticate my machine anyway ... but when I configured
CHAP, I was
successfully authenticated. I don't know if this was a spurious
incident or
whether the Roltanet server isn't really configured for PAP,
although its
claimed to be to. Anyway, the default during negotiation was
CHAP+MD5,
which now works very well.
Also, my mail setup is finally working
properly. I am currently using qmail
to send mails and fetchmail+procmail
to receive them. I now plan to
experiment with qmail-inject as the
MDA.
All said and done, I must confess that this is not what I will be
using for
most of my online time. That's because I have to share the
Windoze system
in my home and rebooting frequently between OS's isn't
exactly my idea of
fun. In fact that is the very reason why it took me so
long to get things
right - I couldn't boot into Linux often enough to try
things
out!
Sameer.
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