Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-19 Thread Colin Tree
Hi, check out man wvdial, gets you dialing 2 isps easy. Sorry can't help with smail. 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 fo

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jun 1999, Sergey V Kovalyov 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. > > Try just using pppconfig and choose two d

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-17 Thread Phillip Deackes
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Here's what I do (and I use Demon too!): I h

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-17 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
> 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. Try just using pppconfig and choose two different provider names (e.g. isp1, isp2). Then to conn

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-17 Thread John Hasler
Anthony writes: > 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. Use pppconfig once for each ISP, giving each a unique name in the "Provider Name"

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-17 Thread Ionut Dumitrache
I think what you're looking for is xisp. Install it from slink/contrib /binary-i386. It's configurable to use multiple accounts, each separate settings, including password auth. type and also up to 8 phone numbers per isp. --- Ionut Dumitrache [EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Thu

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-17 Thread scratch
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > 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. Hm, to be honest, I'm totally clueless about the way Debian handles ppp (I used to use Slackware)

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
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 be

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-17 Thread scratch
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