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Subject: Re: Linux ISP From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 22:26:19 -0800 Compression Craig Oda quotation: > So, my question is, what ISP should I sign up for that is Linux > friendly? There's always attbusiness.net . They know what they're doing; it's the former ibm.net (Advantis) service. http://www.attbusiness.net/ http://www.attbusiness.net/regctr/onlinereg.html http://help.attbusiness.net/helplib/linuxp.html > Also, has anyone connected to netzero.... Inquire / browse here: http://www.httpboards.com/boards/index.cgi?user=brm2&b=2 > or prodigy.... http://www.dougsparling.com/comp/tips/prodigy-linux.html http://pages.prodigy.net/len_mullen/linux/ http://pages.prodigy.net/cheech/linux.txt http://mhelp.bb.prodigy.net/ (Linux OS section) (No, I've not personally used those services from Linux or any other OS.) === Subject: Re: Linux ISP From: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 22:32:32 -0800 (PST) On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Craig Oda wrote: >Hi, >my Cable Modem company (ISP Channel) died and I'm trying to connect to >the Internet from the north part of the 650 area code with a standard >modem. I had a Prodigy disk laying around, so I set up an account >using a friend's Windows machine. I can't connect using Linux right >now. The LCP configuration from Prodigy appears to use a non-standard >6 bit data size (I think). I've tried using netzero, but the PAP >authentication is failing. I've tried sending the encoded password >using the netzero encryption algorithm that was published in one of >those net security lists. > >So, my question is, what ISP should I sign up for that is Linux >friendly? Also, has anyone connected to netzero or prodigy from >Linux recently? It would save me the time of signing up for yet >another ISP. > >I'm using pppd v2.3 Compression.net is linux friendly. You get shell access via Telnet or SSL in addition to the regular Webpage hosting, PPP connection, and email addresses. They run RedHat, and (at least most of) their techs speak Linux. === Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:43:35 -0800 To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Re: Do you know any Free ISP for Linux?] From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> begin Winston Lei quotation: > When I had 1NOL, they changed DNS server address when Juno bought > them. I was able to connect to RAS but was unable to route my traffic > without their DNS server address. Winston, there _is_ no standard protocol called "RAS". Were you perhaps intending to refer to PPP-dialup TCP/IP connectivity? There is (or was, whichever -- I don't care) some kind of software / component / marketing program from Microsoft Corporation called "Remote Access Server". I've found that a number of people with rather deplorably insular backgrounds, having encountered nothing better, tend to refer to dial-up PPP as "RAS". But that is not its name. If you aren't (yet) getting useful answers, I would suggest, as a start, ceasing to refer to standard technology by Microsoft's weird non-standard names -- at least on Linux mailing lists. Just an idea. ===