RE: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!
The ISP has nothing to do with it. There is a systematic
approach to setting up anything. Before one can resolve
an issue one must understand the problem.
The approach is:
1: manually dial up and log into your ISA
2: edit the respective files so that the proper
strings are looked for and responded with
3: adjust the protocol config files accordingly
Just a not, there is one thing missing in the
distributed etc/ppp/options files "defaultroute".
That if the ISA is the primary DNS.
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From: William Chow[SMTP:williamc@uclink2.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 1997 10:14 AM
To: Peter Iannarelli
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; 'jghasler@win.bright.net'
Subject: RE: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
> I'd like to say the getting PPP up and running was a breeze.
> Took about an hour. (1 hour because I had to install hardware,
> and track down a priviledge level issue on a cuaX.)
>
> The actual ppp stuff took abount 10-15 minutes.
> "Dial out with dynamic ip"
>
> I don't see what all the whining is about.
>
AHEM...
Just because PPP works for you doesn't necessarily mean it works as easily
for others. This is due to the fact that ISPs differ in how they establish
PPP connections. You shouldn't assume that others have the same type of
PPP setup as you do, as there are literrally hundreds of differing ISPs
out there. I've helped a couple people install PPP on their Linux boxes,
and it can vary from a no-brainer to a night in hell.
What's the solution, you ask? Get PPP connections standardized.
Will
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