On 17 Jun 1999, scratch wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Is there any easy way of maintaining access to more than one ISP without > > re-writing the config files for smail and ppp? At present I use a spare > > computer for this but it's not very convenient. > > It's been some time that I've used ppp (nifty cable net access over here > :P), but afaik you just use different scripts to start up. eg. pon-foo, > pon-bar. poff can be recycled i guess. (as long as pon and poff are ppp > scripts, when i used ppp they were called ppp-on and ppp-off, but then > again that was Slackware). > > --scratch >
This nearly works, but password authentication fails on the alternative ISP. This may be because one uses CHAP and the other uses PAP; I don't know. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
