[ILUG] Eircom Flatrate died...

[Darragh Bailey]

Quoting Aidan Delaney <adelaney at cs.may.ie>:

> Dé Déar, 2004-05-27 ag 17:01, scríobh Adam Conway:
> > To be frank, I'm stumped.  It's claims to have
> > connected but the connection is unusable and then
> > hangs up. I've tried knocking the speed right down (as
> > low as 9600) but that hasn't helped.
> I've had this problem with Eircon before.  I couldn't fix it.  Rang
> Eircon and told them I was connecting a Mac (I was, it just ran
> GNU/Linux) they gave the usual speech.  Bottom line, Eircom don't care
> and I can't make it work.

Speed isn't the problem, you probably forgot to add entries to your pap-secrets 
and chap-secrets files for the connection. As a result your ppp connection 
isn't authenicating correctly and the server side shuts the connection down 
after a period of time where no valid authenication details have been provided.

/etc/ppp/chap-secrets
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets

There should be something in the manual about them, if you can't find anything 
I'll try and connect later on from home and I post what to put in them. I have 
entries for both eircom (free dialup connection anyway) and oceanfree in mine 
and both connections function correctly, if a little slow due to something that 
eircom did to the phone line (think they put in a line splitter).
-- 
Darragh

"Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"