[H-GEN] Getting ADSL going under Debian

[David Findlay]

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On Tuesday 20 March 2001 13:26, you wrote:
> First, apt-get install pppoe.

I tried it with pppoe from debian, but found that roaring penguin pppoe is 
easier to use, so because it wasn't my machine I decided to go with that, 
because it is easy for him to keep going.

> Then look at the documentation that comes with it (in /usr/doc/pppoe, or
> /usr/share/doc/pppoe). It'll tell you to create a new providers file and
> more or less what to put in it. You also need a chap-secrets file (I think
> the pppoe stuff refers to a pap-secrets file instead), which should look
> something like:
>
> 	yourid at bigpond	*	password
>
> And that should be all there is to it. If you add "debug" to your
> providers file, you should get a fair degree of debugging info in one
> of the /var/log files.

Yep got it going now. I finally figured out what had happened when I used RP 
PPPOE it said that the CHAP authenitcation failed. The password he had given 
me was written down wrong! That will do it every time. Thanks for this info

Just one last question: Telstra kicks you off the ADSL every 24 hours, do you 
reckon a cron job at midnight to disconnect and then reconnect would be a 
good idea? At the moment 24 hours falls right in the middle of the time he is 
likely to be using the net, so I was thinking about doing this to keep it 
going. Thanks,

David

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