Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway).
Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port 5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and attempt again. two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing happens at all. 2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin command from the terminal. on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. any help would be appreciated.
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