FreeBSD and BT Internet

Graham Hamblin ghamblin at btinternet.com
Wed Oct 24 07:11:57 BST 2001


Graham Hamblin wrote:
> 
> Hiyer Jeff
> 
> BTInternet are using chap log in and adding the following in your
> /etc/ppp directory did the trick for me:
> 
> Edit chap-secrets to include a line for example:
> 
> ghamblin at btinternet.com         *       and your current password
> 
> You may also need to create a file /etc/ppp.options which in my case
> contained the following line:
> 
> auth    noauth
> 
> I also created /etc/resolv.conf as follows:
> 
> domain BTInternet.com
> search BTInternet.com
> nameserver 194.73.73.94
> nameserver 194.73.73.95
> nameserver194.72.6.57
> 
> If you look on BTInternet there is a Linux section of faqs which is what
> I have worked from.   I had BSD 4.4 on here for a couple of days last
> weekend but could not set the printer up so for the time being I have
> gone back to Linux.
> 
> All the very best
> Graham
> 
> Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am new to the UK - just arrived from Texas, USA and am now living in
> > Lewisham, London.
> >
> > I have signed on with BT Internet's unlimited 15 pound deal and have my
> > windows laptop running on it, but would like to get my FreeBSD 4.4 machine
> > running NAT and user mode PPP on demand.  I had this running great in
> > Texas through my provider there, but am having trouble here with BT.
> >
> > I don't seem to get any PPP negotiation from the BT side.  Have even tried
> > manually dialling with "term" in the interactive mode, and I get
> > connected, but no data after that.  If I use ~p I get the interactive
> > prompt back, but the ppp prompt doesn't change as it normally would as
> > negotiation occurs.  Am I missing something stupid?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Jeff LaCoursiere
> > jeff at jeff.net
> >
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> --
> Graham Hamblin
> ghamblin at btinternet.com
> S.u.S.E. Linux 7.2 Pro.
> ======================

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Graham Hamblin
ghamblin at btinternet.com	
S.u.S.E. Linux 7.2 Pro.
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