Philip Tellis wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone succeeded in setting up pacenet internet on ubuntu or fedora? A friend has pacenet set up on windows and she needs it set up on linux. She's not too familiar with the setup on windows or how to set it up on linux, but if anyone has ideas, I could explain it to her.
This is in Andheri East if it helps.
Philip
Dear Phillip,
I've been running using pacenet on fedora since 2003, and haven't faced any problems, and i don't use one bit of extra software. And for heavens sake, you DON'T need to use that mammoth of a dialer that pacenet provides via wine etc.
The Pacenet Auth system Depends on 2 parts :- 1. Mac Addresses :- Here you shouldn't face a problem, as the Hardware Default macs should be common on both windows and linux. However, if you're using a custom mac in windoze, then make sure u set that up in linux too. 2. PPP PAP :- Pacenet implements STANDARD PAP auth over the pppoe link, but with a twist. They send the username as is, but dont send the password the same way. Instead, they encode the password into a numeric string, and send that as the password. All i had to do was to use ethereal in windows as my dialer was connecting, capture the numeric string, and bingo, i use that numeric string as my password in linux. It works like a charm, and you have the same username in linux and windows. An interesting side effect of this is that using this trick, you can connect even in windows WITHOUT using the pacenet dialer( Too Much bloat, in my opinion. Who needs Video on demand, expecially when there's almost nothing to see in there and when u have mplayer + 800 gb of disc space :))
In any case, everything i've said here, i've also shared with the pacenet tech guys, loong before they started providing @linuxuser accounts, including their No. 1 sysadmin (A Guy Called Andy, i think). If you still need help in getting pacenet up, do feel free to contact me off list, and propably i can demonstrate the procedure to you via vnc or something.
Regards R. K. Rajeev