[H-GEN] big pond cable on knoppix 4

[Christopher LeMoyne]

Harry Phillips wrote:

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> All this BPAlogin stuff has just cemeted my view that Telstra/Bigpond 
> are an ISP
> to avoid at almost all costs. Most ISP's don't make you jump through 
> any hoops
> let alone the 50 that Pigpond put in front of you.
>
> Does anyone know if Optus Cable makes it this hard or does it "just 
> work" as I
> suspect?
>
I've setup Telstra BPALogin on a Linux box in about 10 mins flat, worked 
great.  That said, I did have to hard reboot the box every 1.5 to 2 
months or so because it would lock up.  The hardware was pretty dodgy, 
so I never traced it down to whether it was dodgy hardware or BPALogin.  
A 5 minute outage was minimal impact for the small business I was with 
at the time, and my time was better spent on other things (afterall, the 
box would reboot pretty darn fast, then reconnect without fail).

I can confirm that Optus Cable "just works".  It is standard DHCP 
ethernet as far as Linux is concerned.  I've set it up for a friend before.

Regards,
Christopher