Hi All, Bigpond adsl now offers static ip for an extra $10 per month. I am in Ballina NSW and have been on Bigpond ADSL for a couple of years. There never seems to be any rhyme or reason to when they might change my ip address. Anyway zoneedit dns has been taking care of it ok but just about every second ip address I get is on a blacklist which is a a pain in the arse for my mail server. Had been giving serious thought to switching to TPG but was balking at the up-front charges.
Anyway today I bit the bullet and signed up for the static ip, but I can't logon for the static ip with my RH9 server. You have to change your logon name from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I made that change in /etc/pppoe/chap-secrets but the logon attempt (using adsl-start) is unsuccessful as recorded in /var/log/messages: Jan 27 15:02:48 gulliver adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. Jan 27 15:02:53 gulliver pppd[5327]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Jan 27 15:02:53 gulliver pppd[5327]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 27 15:02:53 gulliver pppd[5327]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3 Jan 27 15:02:53 gulliver /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up Jan 27 15:02:53 gulliver pppoe[5328]: PPP session is 2585 Jan 27 15:02:54 gulliver pppd[5327]: LCP terminated by peer Jan 27 15:02:54 gulliver pppoe[5328]: Session 2585 terminated -- received PADT from peer Jan 27 15:02:54 gulliver pppoe[5328]: Sent PADT Jan 27 15:02:54 gulliver pppd[5327]: Modem hangup Jan 27 15:02:54 gulliver pppd[5327]: Connection terminated. Jan 27 15:02:54 gulliver pppd[5327]: Exit. Jan 27 15:02:54 gulliver adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. Jan 27 15:02:54 gulliver /etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET unregister event not supported It just keeps trying. So kill it off with adsl-stop Jan 27 15:02:56 gulliver adsl-stop: Killing pppd Jan 27 15:02:56 gulliver adsl-stop: Killing adsl-connect If I reverse the username change in chap-secrets back to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I can logon ok as usual: Jan 27 15:03:40 gulliver pppd[5409]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Jan 27 15:03:40 gulliver pppd[5409]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 27 15:03:40 gulliver pppd[5409]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3 Jan 27 15:03:40 gulliver /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up Jan 27 15:03:40 gulliver pppoe[5410]: PPP session is 2586 Jan 27 15:03:41 gulliver pppd[5409]: local IP address 203.x.x.x Jan 27 15:03:41 gulliver pppd[5409]: remote IP address 172.x.x.x There is no point calling Bigpond support. They stop talking when you say Linux. There is nothing in their FAQs. If ever I do need to call support to confirm an outage is widespread and not just me, I have the old Doze box that it was originally installed on (pre-self-install) so I test with that box. Anyway in this case that box connects with the new username (using the Doze ADSL connect client) and the static ip is assigned. So, there must be something wrong with my setup. I have tried both chap and pap. /etc/ppp/pppoe-server-options: # PPP options for the PPPoE server # LIC: GPL require-chap login lcp-echo-interval 10 lcp-echo-failure 2 /etc/ppp/options: lock /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: # Secrets for authentication using CHAP # client server secret IP addresses "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" * "password" It works (gets an ip in the dynamic pool) if I change this back to: # Secrets for authentication using CHAP # client server secret IP addresses "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" * "password" Does anybody know what I should change? Is anyone on Bigpond ADSl and has switched from dynamic IP to static? I think it is CHAP authentication. Cheers, Kerry. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
