Re: [Plug] still the newbie

[Michael <mike@westphila.net>]

>>  My reply to Christian Betz's mail was: 
> > reinstall 5.2 and see if it still happens.  Does anyone have any other
> > suggestions.
> >
> Wait just one second. My friend has bellatlantic and he has to use some
> kind of authentication, either PAP, CHAP, or MSCHAP. I know very little
> about this but what will happen is that it will dial and seem to connect,
> but in reality you never actually have a link up and running. I don't think
> reinstalling an older distro will help much.
> 
> I am almost sure someone else on this list knows how to fix your problem.
> Once your modem dials, you can definitely get your connection to work.

<GRIPE>
Our house *used to* use bellatlantic.net up until a couple of days ago
 they sent us a bill for ~ $700, a notice for our extensive usage.   
Apparently they'd emailed us a couple of months ago detailing the changes to
our "unlimited" contract, which they'd changed w/o our approval.

Of course we'd never checked the email for our account, of 
little fault to ourselves.  A few hours on the phone with a number of
BA reps cleared up the matter, much thanks to my brother Andrew
<andy@westphila.net>
</GRIPE>

In any case, I'd configured our original gateway using redhat 5.x & netcfg.
You'll definaly need PAP authentication, in which case
your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file should look like:

username        ppp0    passwd-in-plain-text 


hope this helps.


_M.




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