Re: Using more than one ISP
On 17 Jun 1999, scratch wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > Is there any easy way of maintaining access to more than one ISP without
> > re-writing the config files for smail and ppp? At present I use a spare
> > computer for this but it's not very convenient.
>
> It's been some time that I've used ppp (nifty cable net access over here
> :P), but afaik you just use different scripts to start up. eg. pon-foo,
> pon-bar. poff can be recycled i guess. (as long as pon and poff are ppp
> scripts, when i used ppp they were called ppp-on and ppp-off, but then
> again that was Slackware).
>
> --scratch
>
This nearly works, but password authentication fails on the alternative
ISP. This may be because one uses CHAP and the other uses PAP; I don't
know.
Anthony
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