bigpond adsl hints

[Oliver George <o_george@postoffice.utas.edu.au>]

Hi All,

Just got ADSL in sunny Tasmania (Australia) and went through the process
of making it work on debian testing.  Here are some tips which might
help the next person.  The killer was point #3, pppoeconf doesn't update
the chap-secret (instead it only changes pap-secret).


1. install the pppoe package

2. your username is "example@bigpond"

3. bigpond adsl pppoe authenticates with chap not pap... make sure
/etc/ppp/chap-secret has a line which looks like this...

  "myusername@bigpond" * "mypassword"

4. the best way i found to see what the error was was to add a line with
"record /tmp/ppp.log" to my /etc/ppp/peers/adsl script so i could see
the low level error not reported by ppp or pppoe.


cheers, Oliver.