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Joseph_sys
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 Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:56 am Post subject: [SOLVED] dial-up connection configuration |
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Can somebody dust-up their knowledge how to set-up Internet connection over dial-up?
I've configured dial-up using wvdial/ppp, it connects OK but I need to setup network connection to use dial-up.
Do I use quickswitch?
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ewaller
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It has been a while, but I recall that you had to down all other ethernet connections in order for PPP to allow you to route traffic. This is a security issue IIRC.
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Joseph_sys
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| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:36 am Post subject: |
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I think I need to reconfigure /etc/conf.d/net
This is what I've found in the net.example
since I'll be using both ADSL and dialup I was curious if it is possible to use something like: quickswitch
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# PPP
# For PPP support, emerge net-dialup/ppp
# PPP is used for most dialup connections, including ADSL.
# The older ADSL module is documented below, but you are encouraged to try
# this module first.
#
# You need to create the PPP net script yourself. Make it like so
#ln -s net.lo /etc/init.d/net.ppp0
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# We have to instruct ppp0 to actually use ppp
#config_ppp0=( "ppp" )
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# Each PPP interface requires an interface to use as a "Link"
#link_ppp0="/dev/ttyS0" # Most PPP links will use a serial port
#link_ppp0="eth0" # PPPoE requires an ethernet interface
#link_ppp0="[itf.]vpi.vci" # PPPoA requires the ATM VC's address
#link_ppp0="/dev/null" # ISDN links should have this
#link_ppp0="pty 'your_link_command'" # PPP links over ssh, rsh, etc
#
# Here you should specify what pppd plugins you want to use
# Available plugins are: pppoe, pppoa, capi, dhcpc, minconn, radius,
# radattr, radrealms and winbind
#plugins_ppp0=(
# "pppoe" # Required plugin for PPPoE
# "pppoa vc-encaps" # Required plugin for PPPoA with an option
# "capi" # Required plugin for ISDN
#)
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In my case I think it might be "dhcpc"
plugins_ppp0=("dhcpc") |
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ewaller
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| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:15 am Post subject: |
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I don't have anything for ppp in my /etc/conf.d/net. In my home network, my PPP ADSL connection is maintained by my router. When the ADSL goes down, or when I visit my folks who have no high speed options, I use ppp to establish my connection, but I invoke it by hand when I need to use dial-up. In my case I DO NOT want to automatically establish a dial up connection.
I think by creating an entry in /etc/conf.d/net, you are telling the system to automatically establish a dial up connection when it feels the need. That scares me. Granted, you may need an entry if the system is to maintain an ADSL connection without a router or an intelligent DSL modem.
I would segregate the functions and put the ADSL stuff in /etc/conf.d/net, whereas when creating a dial-up connection I would manually down the ADSL stuff and explicitly hand-start the dial-up PPP connection.
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Joseph_sys
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:46 am Post subject: |
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I'm trying to make it to work but I'm getting from wvdial after sending username and passord: | Code: | ...
---> Hmm... a prompt. Sending "ppp"
ppp
Requested Service Not Authorized.
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When I used in the past kppp it work but wvdial is missing something.
Does the username and/or password (in my case username is my email address) have to be enclosed inside a quotation marks etc? |
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Joseph_sys
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SOLVED
wvdial.conf need so called "Stupid Mode" on
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Supid Mode = on
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This solved the problem with connecting, the connection was recognized as "ppp0" and it worked without any problems. |
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