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In article <3ba1e411.10776083@news.demon.co.uk>, Mark Chater wrote:
> 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]

Ta.

>>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?

Possibly, but right now I just want the fscking thing working.

> Regularly see
> more than that on news downloads (with compression).  Suppose it
> doesn't matter as it's all unmetered.

Zactly.

>>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 | 
[...]
> It's PAP.  You need to edit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (or wherever that may
> be on your distro).

Debian, and that seems to have been done for me, presumably by wvdialconf.

> AIUI when connecting to Demon via ISDN you *have*
> to use PAP, the scripted login doesn't happen.

That makes sense.

>>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?

Isn't that only really applicable to internal devices? It seems to need
ippp0 and /dev/isdninfo which I assume you don't get with an external 
TA - from what I've read you use them just like a fast modem?

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