> I'm setting up an internet access box for a shop in a village. At home > I have a broadband account with Wanadoo. I use Fedora Core 3 and > eventually got connected using the speedbundle and much fiddling. I > took the machine to the shop. The shopowner has a BT account and the > same revision (4.00) speedtouch modem. Curiosly though he did not have > a password for his account. I had requested that I would need his user > name and password. He had contacted BT and they had told him that he > did not have one and would not need one for the broadband account. So I > edited the chap-secrets & pap-secrets files to include his username and > deleted the part about his password. I also changed the user name in > the ifcfg-ppp0 file. > > I shut the machine down and then connected the modem. Started up again, > but could not get internet connectivity any way I tried.
Hi Neil, there are several protocols in use by different ISPs. The most common are PPPoA and PPPoE, but there's also routed IP and others. When I was with Wanadoo in France, they used PPPoA and wanted a username and password. When I moved over to Free in France, they used routed IP and didn't want a password. Requiring a username and password is fairly pointless, since your ISP knows perfectly well which telephone line you are hooked up to, so they know who you are. Still, the fact that BT doesn't want a username/password may be a sign that they are not using ppp but something else, though my guess is that they are using PPPoE. I think you should ask BT what protocol they are using. All the best, Duncan. Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
