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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:02:13 +0100, ${spam}$@sneakerpimp.fsnet.co.uk
(John Ineson) wrote:

[XP to demon.service.isdn - there are some knowledgable peeps there,
some of whom use linux]

>I've just set up Smurftime on a line at work, cos I thought a permanent
>net connection would be sensible. We've got a BT Ignition TA which I
>hooked up to ttyS0, and despite never having used ISDN I figured it
>would Just Work.

ICBW here but wont that restrict you to 115200 bps?  Regularly see
more than that on news downloads (with compression).  Suppose it
doesn't matter as it's all unmetered.

>Looks like I was wrong - wvdialconf works out that it's dealing with an
>"ISDN modem" but when I try to connect (to Demon) it doesn't present
>login:, just a load of xxxxx, interspersed with | which someone else
>suggested might be it trying to do CHAP or PAP. I have a feeling I'm
>barking up completely the wrong tree. Do I need to configure it in some
>way? There is a Windows config program with options for various things
>including choosing between "Clear channel", v.110, v.120 (whatever they
>are) something about PPP, plus all sorts of other stuff.

It's PAP.  You need to edit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (or wherever that may
be on your distro).  AIUI when connecting to Demon via ISDN you *have*
to use PAP, the scripted login doesn't happen.  The other thing you
need is I believe sync-ppp, not any of the other options.


>Feel free to point me at a FM (most of the docs I've found seem to be
>about internal ISDN cards) but I've a feeling that somebody will be
>able to answer this one in a couple of lines.
>
>Additionally, what would y'all recommend for running the connection? In
>the sense of a reliable daemon that'll dial at boot time, and redial if
>the connection's dropped. Like diald without the demand element    8)
>
>I know most dialers can auto-redial, but I'd like something that runs
>out of init.d by default, to save me bodging it to do so.

Just use isdnctrl direct?

<http://www.mccnet.demon.co.uk/howto/>

has useful information and a script using the isdnctrl program to run
from init.d

(using diallers is one of the many things I never got to work properly
on linux for some reason, I always ended up using pppd direct with
analogue and isdnctrl with isdn :-/ )
--
Mark, an INTP               http://www.chater.demon.co.uk