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Well, at least I'm here, and in a talk#

Fri, 05 Jul 2002 15:56:37 +0000

Well, at least I'm here, and in a talk ...

Wireless networking aside: the university has wireless access, but ...

First you get a username and password from the registration desk. Then you wrestle with it.

  1. apt-get install pppoe pptp-linux
  2. vi /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider edit "user", remove lcp-echo stuff (the network is slow enough that you won't want to drop your connection every time it lags a bit), remove defaultroute option 
  3.  pon dsl-provider


    Bum.  authentication isn't happening

  4.  vi /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider

  5.  vi /etc/ppp/peers/chap-secrets

  6.  pon dsl-provider


    aha, that's better

  7.  cat > /etc/ppp/peers/pptp
user Gwxd962wRa
noipdefault
defaultroute
  1.  route add -host 172.16.12.246 gw  172.16.10.250

  2.  pptp  172.16.12.246 call pptp