On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:21:01PM +1000, Harald Richard Ashburner wrote:
> Pascal Hakim said:
> >
> >The workaround is called bpalogin. It's available as part of most
> >distributions.
> >
> I've used bpalogin under Debian Woody & Sid, Mandrake 9.2 & RH7.3,8 & 9
> and even WinXP.
> I found my connectivity improved dramatically with all (including
> WinXP!)
>
> The other option is to use some sort of router that logs on to telstra
> for you. I'm currently using a Netgear Wireless AP & router which I set
> up using mozilla on linux and it works really well.
>
> http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net/
> is the bpalogin page. For downloads
>
> I think I remember reading that the original version was based on some
> perl scripts that were written by some dude who was contracting to telstra.
> So maybe the protocol wasn't actually reverse engineered as such. Maybe
> even Telstra techies tacitly supporting alternative OSs even though Telstra
> won't officially support them..? You'd imagine that there would be quite a few
> sysadmins & programmers working at telstra who prefer linux, BSD et al.
>
I do believe you followed-up on the wrong list. ;-)
My bigpond cable installer actually told me about it when he connected
the cable modem, but I think they're contractors as well. Another good
thing about bpalogin is the verbose mode which shows you a little more
of what's going when cable goes down.
Cheers,
Pasc
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