Re: aDSL and Telstra (again :) ) - Australian issues?

["Peter Folk" <pfolk_(_at_)_uni_(_dot_)_uiuc_(_dot_)_edu>]

>Would you be prepared to share your settings? Also - any particular
>reason for using pppd and not ppp?

Sure, but it's a bit of a mishmash.  I had to do rather a lot of
kernel hacking to get pptp to work and haven't made it into a nice
easy patch yet.  You can download my modified sources from
<http://www.cawfee.net/dl/ppp-2.3.9-pfolk.tgz>; after extracting,
you need to

  (cd /usr/src/sys/net; tar xzf -) < ppp-2.3.9-pfolk/sys-net_files.tgz

and then rebuild the kernel without GRE tunnel support.  My /etc/...
files are in ppp-2.3.9-pfolk/etc_files.tgz.

The scripts I wrote to handle taking restarting the connection
(the service and my VPN provider appear to hang up somewhat freq-
uently) are in ppp-2.3.9-pfolk/scripts/up_*.  You call them with
the parameters: username ipaddr; where username is your login (for
Netissimo users, that's fti/...) and ipaddr is the IP address of
the DSL modem.  And obviously you have to do up_dsl before you do
up_vpn...

I didn't "choose" pppd, it just happened that's how pptp was im-
plemented and I didn't want to tackle any more than I already had
on my plate.  Anyway I feel ppp should be in-kernel, since most
other protocols are as well (No microkernels here!).

Pete
p.s. This is from 2.7-STABLE as of a while ago =)
p.p.s. stayup won't work for you but does for me; you can look at it
and add username and IP address arguments to the up_* commands.