FreeBSD and BT Internet

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

Hmm, these are great suggestions, and I may play with pppd just to get
things working, but I am still a bit confused.  Surely no authentication
would occur until PPP negotiation is established?  I'm not even getting
LCP.  I'll try some more things tonight and may post again.

Thanks for all your help!  Great list.

j

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Brian Somers wrote:

> > 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
> 
> chap-secrets is a pppd file AFAIK.  ppp(8) doesn't read it.
> 
> > > You may also need to create a file /etc/ppp.options which in my case
> > > contained the following line:
> > > 
> > > auth    noauth
> 
> Again, this is a pppd(8) file, not ppp(8).
> 
> > > 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
> 
> Yes, putting the nameservers in resolv.conf manually is necessary 
> with BTInternet as the ones that their ppp servers negotiate are.... 
> interesting!  They provide NS records that are more than a year out 
> of date.
> 
> Of course the above file should be fixed (there's a missing space, 
> and both domain and search shouldn't be used at the same time - in 
> fact, I'd suggest neither should be used for a one-machine setup).
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Ah, this explains why you're doing pppd(8) stuff instead of ppp(8) :*)
> 
> WRT the printer, I'd suggest apsfilter (from the ports).  I don't use 
> it myself, but it's supposed to be good.
> 
> > > 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
> [.....]
> > -- 
> > Graham Hamblin
> > ghamblin at btinternet.com	
> > S.u.S.E. Linux 7.2 Pro.
> > ======================
> 
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