[ale] Linux and BellSouth.net

[Michael B. Nelson]

Howdy,
I remember a while ago someone asking how to access Worldnet.att.net using
Linux. The instructions found at http://www.toppig.com/wurd/linux.html
worked fine for me with little modification.

It also works for bellsouth.net except that bellsouth appears to use PAP
rather than CHAP, so you edit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. Here's my way into
Bellsouth.net:

made a file bellsouth.ppp:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/pppd name "<username>" connect /etc/ppp/bellsouth-chat /dev/cua1
19200 noipdefault modem defaultroute crtscts debug

made a file /etc/ppp/bellsouth-chat
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/chat -v " " ATDT300-8900 CONNECT " "

edited pap-secrets
# Secrets for authentication using PAP
# client   server   secret   IP addresses
<username> * <password> *


The username and password are those exactly those that you made up when you
sign up for bellsouth, unlike the Worldnet which assigns you a username
and password. Far as I can tell, you have to sign up under windows. 
I wonder if the sign-up could be done under Wine or dosemu/winos2. So far
(three days) Bellsouth answers on the second ring everytime and seems to be
faster than anywhere else I've tried.

I'm a newbie, so if this can be prettified, please let me know. There's also 
the /etc/ppp/options file, and I dropped debug after getting it to work.


Don't reply to mike at clovis.org or whatever appears as my address as I'm trying
elm from my home through Bellsouth's PPP and I haven't a clue as to how to
get mail delivered to my Linux at home. I reckon it's not possible as the name
isn't  DNS registered. How could it be with dynamic IP? Is there a way?

-Mike