[H-GEN] big pond cable on knoppix 4

[Troy Piggins]

* Mick <mickhowe at bigpond.net.au> :
> 
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:14, David Harrison wrote:
> > > I've never done it, but I think you still need bpalogin (I think
> > > that's what it's called) in order to login to your account. AFAIK you
> > > don't get it from telstra but a google search would reveal its
> > > location and instructions.
> >
> > You can download it usage-free from BigPond Files (though its only 55k
> 
> I have installed bpalogin (from ftp.debian.org), but it seems to take more 
> than just that. 
> 
> if it makes a difference he has the motorola surf cable modem connected to 
> eth0 and a clean install of Knoppix 4.

Make sure port 5050 (by default on bpalogin) is open on your
firewall.  Bigpond sends a "heartbeat" to that port on your machine
to make sure you're still there.

I don't know your modem there, but I assume it is just a modem, not
a router with firewall builtin (else you'll need to open up that
port there and any associated port forwarding etc).

-- 
Troy Piggins
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