Re: PPP settings for GOL

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

any chance you know the "magic number"?

cheers

tony

Frank BENNETT wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 05:53:49PM +0900, Antony Stace wrote:
> 
> > Could someone please direct me to some info on setting up a ppp
> > connection with GOL, in particular the settings in the scripts/config
> > files found in /etc/ppp.
> 
> I set up my sister-in-law's machine for this earlier this month. I don't have
> the script to hand, but it was very straightforward.  I did have one problem,
> though, at the GOL end.  The first number I tried fed the machine one of two
> IP addresses at random, one of which would work flawlessly, the other of which
> would fail to send an initialization string to the Pop3 client at our end.
> Jonathan Byrne was kind enough to talk me through the problem on the phone.
> When I shifted to a different number, everything went swimmingly.
> 
> Perhaps Jonathan will chime in with news of whether the problem got sorted
> ... ?
> 
> Cheers,
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