Topic: Bigpond Cable help required

[Daniel N]

I really need help getting Bigpond Cable to work on my E-Smith server. If ANYONE can help me out I would really appreciate it.

Thanks heaps

Dan

[Gordon Rowell]

The following should work for 4.1 and later. Please report success/failure.

The e-smith-bpalogin below is a new version which had just been built. Note, it requires the perl Net::DNS module as it needs to use the BigPond nameservers to do the initial name lookups for the dce-server.

export BASE=ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/charlieb

rpm -i $BASE/RPMS/i386-RH6.2/bpalogin-1.3-2.i386.rpm
rpm -i $BASE/RPMS/i386-RH7.0/perl-Net-DNS-0.12-3.i386.rpm
rpm -i $BASE/RPMS/noarch/e-smith-bpalogin-1.3.0-02.noarch.rpm

Use the e-smith console to configure the external interface:
  - Select PPPoE
  - Enter your BPA username (just the username, not the domain)
   - Enter your BPA password
   - These values are used by bpalogin, but BPA does not use PPPoE
   - Select to the external interface configuration
       - Select "DHCP - send Ethernet address"
   - Press to accept all further values and save configuration
- Check /var/log/messages for messages with the string "bpalogin"

If this doesn't work, please check the messages file above, /etc/bpalogin.conf and the bpalogin entry in /home/e-smith/configuration

Thanks,

Gordon

[DOOPY_LOOPY]

If what you mean is that you can't get authorised by your BPA Cable authentication server then yes I can help you out.

However I recommend you read the entire thread of where you originally posted as the answer is in there.

In that thread are all the IP numbers for QLD VIC NSW and even SA.

They are your authentication servers, that you need to login to.

try traceroute dce-server."state".bigpond.net.au

where "state" =VIC, NSW, QLD etc.

I did have to alter the original template to just get it to use my dce-server IP address.

I also had to alter the port.

Anyway Read the entire thread and all the answers should be outlined there.

If your still having problems post again.

Bye.

PS:Gordon what is the state of your review of the BPALogin module?  As previously discussed.

[Gordon Rowell]

DOOPY_LOOPY wrote:
> [...]
>
> PS:Gordon what is the state of your review of the BPALogin
> module?  As previously discussed.

See my posting above

Gordon

[James Collins]

I have e-smith 4.1 with my bigpond ADSL connection and it works fine without any problems at all. It wont work with versions 4.0 and lower as that dosn't have the PPPOE suport needed for the ADSL. E-smith will give you the choise as to what connection you have, select "pppoe adsl connection" then give it your username and password which is provided from telstra. And thats it.. it is really *that* easy!!!

Good work e-smith team.


Jibmo.

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[James Collins]

I have e-smith 4.1 with my bigpond ADSL connection and it works fine without any problems at all. It wont work with versions 4.0 and lower as that dosn't have the PPPOE suport needed for the ADSL. E-smith will give you the choise as to what connection you have, select "pppoe adsl connection" then give it your username and password which is provided from telstra. And thats it.. it is really *that* easy!!!

Good work e-smith team.


Jibmo.

(if you wan't to email me replace the _at_ with @)

[Rob K]

Gordon, that worked great for me as well - thanks

Where does BPAlogin 2.0 fit into this?

[Charlie Brady]

Rob K wrote:

> Where does BPAlogin 2.0 fit into this?

BPALogin has been unreliable for me, and others. As soon as we are assured that it has been fixed, we will adjust e-smith-bpalogin if necessary, and recommend the later version of BPALogin.

Regards

Charlie

[Simon]

I have been through what is posted to get my connection working,, but still have some problems..  here is what happens.. I get an ip address from bigpond but if i try it ping anything via IP i get a reply

10.192.2.1 Packet filtered.... what is this..


When i try and ping the authenification server in qld i get request time out ??


Help please