[ale] need working dial up

[Mark Wright]

Thanks everyone.  You have helped me push this bug further in the last 
two days than I have been able to in weeks.

Please let me ask a real dumb sounding question of the list.  Is anyone 
using, or know someone using a 2.6 kernel distro on a dial up 
connection?

This is why I ask.  There seems to be nothing wrong with my setup.  ( I 
tried the various username adaptations)  I am getting connected at the 
modem level and ppp starts just fine.  Then a problem occurs.   PPP on 
my box isn't responding to the server as expected.  I am not sure when 
the UID and pwd are used but I think it is passed before ppp 
establishes a link not after.  All the info that I found on the web to 
help me configure was written for 2.4 or earlier kernels.   I found 
some links to ppp.rc issues in the current kernel and some folks 
talking about the need to fix the module and recompile the kernel.  So 
I'd like to fall back and ask the obvious question, has any body done 
this?

If any one person on ALE has a 2.6 kernel doing dial-up please raise 
you hand.  If not I am going to dig up a 8.x or 9.x version of mandrake 
and test my hypothesis.


Thanks again.

Mark

On Dec 17, 2004, at 11:46 PM, James Baldwin wrote:

> 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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