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

Fri Jul 5 15:56:37 2002

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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. 

# apt-get install pppoe pptp-linux
# 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 

  1. pon dsl-provider

Bum. authentication isn't happening 

  • vi /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider

  • vi /etc/ppp/peers/chap-secrets

  • pon dsl-provider

    • aha, that's better 

  • cat > /etc/ppp/peers/pptp
user Gwxd962wRa
noipdefault
defaultroute

    • hide-password
lcp-echo-interval 20
lcp-echo-failure 3
connect /bin/true
mtu 1412
^D

    1. route add -host 172.16.12.246 gw  172.16.10.250

    2. pptp  172.16.12.246 call pptp