On Monday 08 May 2006 01:40, R. K. Rajeev wrote: > Dear Phillip, > > I've been running using pacenet on fedora since 2003, and haven't > faced any problems, and i don't use one bit of extra software. And > for heavens sake, you DON'T need to use that mammoth of a dialer that > pacenet provides via wine etc. > > The Pacenet Auth system Depends on 2 parts :- > 1. Mac Addresses :- Here you shouldn't face a problem, as the > Hardware Default macs should be common on both windows and linux. > However, if you're using a custom mac in windoze, then make sure u > set that up in linux too. > 2. PPP PAP :- Pacenet implements STANDARD PAP auth over the pppoe > link, but with a twist. They send the username as is, but dont send > the password the same way. Instead, they encode the password into a > numeric string, and send that as the password. All i had to do was to > use ethereal in windows as my dialer was connecting, capture the > numeric string, and bingo, i use that numeric string as my password > in linux. It works like a charm, and you have the same username in > linux and windows. An interesting side effect of this is that using > this trick, you can connect even in windows WITHOUT using the pacenet > dialer( Too Much bloat, in my opinion. Who needs Video on demand, > expecially when there's almost nothing to see in there and when u > have mplayer + 800 gb of disc space :)) > > In any case, everything i've said here, i've also shared with the > pacenet tech guys, loong before they started providing @linuxuser > accounts, including their No. 1 sysadmin (A Guy Called Andy, i > think). If you still need help in getting pacenet up, do feel free to > contact me off list, and propably i can demonstrate the procedure to > you via vnc or something. > > Regards > R. K. Rajeev
Bravo!! This is just what I was waiting for :) I knew they were changing something in the PPPoE authentication which made it incompatible with the standard clients! :) -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
