[ale] need working dial up

James Baldwin jbaldwin at antinode.net
Fri Dec 17 23:49:38 EST 2004


On 17 Dec 2004, at 21:22, Mike Terzo wrote:

> only need ELN/ on very very old earthlink accounts.
>
> You however need your full domain.
> user at earthlink.net or user at mindspring.com which ever you have..
> i've used the dial up in the past on a linux machine and didn't have 
> any problem, it's pretty standard radius authentication.  just out of 
> curiosity what are you typing in as your username?

On some PoPs you can authenticate with just a username or MS number, on 
others you must authenticate using your user and domain. ELN is just 
another way of passing the Earthlink domain to RADIUS. Functionally, 
there should be no difference between ELN/example or 
example at earthlink.net. Also, any mailbox you have through Earthlink 
should work for authentication be it @earthlink.net or @mindspring.net.

The configuration of the NAS device you are dialing into is what 
determines what the default domain for plain usernames is. For 
Earthlink owned PoPs this should be @earthlink.net, but on some third 
party PoPs it will not necessitating the domain (ELN, @earthlink, etc.) 
portion.

This goes for any service that authenticates via RADIUS. This excepts, 
of course, cable.

Full domain is the most sure way to authenticate from anywhere.
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