Only way I can reply at the present time; as an attachment..
Hal
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I have to use the kvinet.com's web mail to post this...
Greetings, thanks and Chuck wrote:
Topic:
As far as I can see I cannot have a pppoe setup and a dialup
setup on the same machine.. It's either one or the other.. Not both..
This machine has a NIC and a hardware modem, with the modem running
for years with little problems.. "Adding" PPPOE for ADSL completely
upsets everything, necessitating an install of the ppp package and
running pppsetup again from scratch, in order to have dial up again..
Am I wrong?? Any comments most welcome. TIA Hal.
Discussion:
Sequentially or concurrently?
Don't need concurrent and wish I didn't need sequential
except I could not get my desired setup working and wondered what the
solution might be.. Basically I want the box ADSL, Verizon.net, but
to be able to getmymail and compose offline, then sendmail.. The
getmail is working fine and, as you say, very fast.. Answering any
mailbox incoming mail, on my machine, using Mutt as MUA, still NG..
The biggest problem is; that my dialup ISP, kvinet.com, requires they
be the relay for sending mail out.. This is a simple entry in
sendmails submit.cf file and works fine dialup only..
Hal, I do not understand why you would want two IP/ISP connections
of such a huge speed difference. :-| DSL is usually about 25
times faster than dial-up. Running both would give you, perhaps,
a 4% gain. Now, you would not only need a custom routing table,
but you would need to configure some way to share the data transfer.
I know that IP sharing exists, but not how to configure it. :-|
I don't want two options, only ADSL, but I must be able to
sendmail by using my original ISP and our mailboxes there.. I, at one
time and the original post, was I thought the only answer might be
having both setups on one machine..
If I was to switch between DSL and dialup on the same host,
I'd run ppp-setup,
save the ppp-go/ppp-down scripts and the current rc.local;
Then
setup PPPOE and save whatever script is created.
Then, create two scripts, ALA...
#/usr/local/bin/makeDSL.sh
cp /etc/rc.d/rc.local.DSL /etc/rc.d/rc.local
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
&
#/usr/local/bin/makeDIALUP..sh
cp /etc/rc.d/rc.local.dialup /etc/rc.d/rc.local
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
HTH. <more>
The scripts would have to be more complicated, in my case,
because pppoe.conf overwrites /etc/resolv.conf with verizons DNS
address that kvinet.com wont or cant use.. I've not gotten into that
too heavily.. Manually entering both DNS's doesn't work because,
every time adsl-start is invoked, it rewrites resolv.conf to a
symlink to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, that is verizons DNS.. Another
enigma is that adsl-start has been replaced by pppoe-start in later
versions.. I tried all this on another machine to try and learn more
and got more frustrated.. <grin>
Hal wrote:
On 11-17, Chuck Gelm wrote:
Hal wrote:
<snip>
I'm the only user so it should be simple, eh?? HI.. If they
both use PAP, we have a big problem with the way rp-pppoe and
pppsetup works.. No work around that so far.. The automatic DNS
entries overwrite and no amount futzing has fixed that so far..
If one ISP handled all it would be, maybe, easier but Verizon doesn't
support POP3 and hands off all it's mail operation to either Yahoo or
MSN.. I don't care to use either..
Hal, I'm getting lost among the pronouns. I cannot tell who
is doing what, with which, nor to whom.
This may or may not be simple. I need more information to
tell whether I may have the capacity to assist.
I do not know what PAP is.
I know it's confusing, especially to me who didn't have these
INet problems 20 years ago... Ugh.. PAP and CHAP, you must use one or
the other, are authentication routines.. Do you not have pap-secrets
and/or chap-secrets in /etc/ppp, moving the password into a more
secure position?? Both kvinet.com and verizon.net use PAP, except the
entries are different.. When pppoe is run over a normal ppp setup, it
renames ppp-secrets and chap-secrets to .bak files, so dial up can't
possibly work after that..
If rp-pppoe (RoaringPenguin) works, we do not have a problem.
If pppsetup works, we do not have a problem.
The need or benefit of running both DSL and dialup has not been
demonstrated.
I have run one ISP connection and used another's DNS.
I do not see that overwriting DNS entries is a fatal problem.
"Verizon doesn't support POP3"
Uh, I do not see why you put DSL/dialup and POP in the same sentence.
I have used POP with dialup, DSL, & cable modem.
What is the core issue here? Verizon-dialup?; Verizon DSL?
The BIG problem is that I'm not doing what Verizon wants me
to do.. They only want M$ and their version of IE6 with all it's
advertising and popups/popdowns.. That part is no problem, of course,
it's just the eMail sending.. Kvinet.com allows mailbox access from
the INet with no blocking so their accounts can getmail without
having to use webmail, just POP3 for speed and efficiency.. In
retrospect I don't think I should fault Verizon for their policy..
They have to go with the market share like any business..
Your Verizon-DSL account does not offer POP?
I'm almost sure they don't but not, honestly, sure.. Anyway I
don't want to use their lashup for mail because they hand off all
eMail stuff to either MSN or Yahoo.. They don't have their own
mailboxes.. I want to keep things "simple." Dream on with that one,
eh? One main reason is that kvinet.com is GREAT people.. The SysAdm
is trying to help me and is even doing some things at home to try and
help.. Huge Verizon cannot possibly serve that well.. My wife will
continue to use her dialup and mailboxes at kvinet.com, no matter I
have Vz ADSL.. She doesn't want to rock the boat and I can understand
why now.. <grin>
Who is your DSL ISP provider?
Verizon.net -- Formerly Bell Atlantic, one of the baby
bells.. Huge outfit.. Also our landline telephone provider.. No other
outfit available for broadband.. I think you presumed, above, that
Verizon was both dialup and ADSL provider.. I wasn't clear enough I
bet..
Who is your dialup ISP provider?
kvinet.com in Charleston, WV, accessed via a local number.. A
fantastic outfit, IMHO.. We wont desert them..
<snip>
Both packages perform a similar function. Connect to an ISP.
Yes but they both presume either alone and I cannot, so far,
seem to find anyway to circumvent that..
It is illogical, to me, to use both DSL and dialup.
Why do you wish both? What benefit?
As above; don't need both, just ADSL but sending mail as
outlined.. Receiving mail no problem using getmail...
<snip>
For the time being I'm going to presume I have to use pppoe
only and that works very well for Web access but sendmail and ftp are
a problem. My web site is at the same site as my mailboxes and I can
web mail, no problem, but my eyes aren't that good.. I'd rather go the
POP3 route that's OK with ADSL for receiving mail only using
getmail.. I can sendmail to anyone on the same ISP, but nowhere
else.. A DNS problem?? I guess so but no way to fix it yet.. To
complicate matters my ISP insists on being a remote rather than
letting me on the INet myself like I used to do.. The ADSL ISP will
not talk to anyone about Linux as long as their MS stuff is working..
It's up to me to figure it out someway or another.. I may be able to
do something with different partitions.. Any way it's gonna be a lot
of leg work, methinks..
"but sendmail and ftp are a problem"
Would you be more specific? Exact error message?
I'm sorting this out now with so many and a blown mind..
Clearly cut and try is not working so far.. Separate partitions would
solve the problem /or/ separate boxes, but that would be counter
productive.. Web mail works, but my bad eyes can't stand much of the
GUI display for text.. My wife can't use GUI at all with her
glaucoma.. Old age sucks... <grin>
My website is the same as my mailboxes and I can POP and SMTP
and web mail, no problem. I''ve never had a problem with this
nomatter whether I was using dialup, DSL, or cable modem. :-|
You are lucky or in the right place at the right time.. We're
very rural, our own choosing, so have to suffer the consequences..
Refusing to run M$ has it's problems too, as we all know..
" I can sendmail to anyone on the same ISP, but nowhere
else.. A DNS problem?? "
Exact error message?
My notes terrible: "Relay access denied "Service unavailable"
then "Connection refused by 127.0.0.1" I've tried various telnet
schemes to port 25 and have become more confused, not having to do
that previously..
"The ADSL ISP will not talk to anyone about Linux as long as their MS
stuff is working.."
Uh huh. Neither will mine. I did not use any Micro$oft stuff when I
had dialup nor DSL ISP (and not now with my cable modem). ?
"It's up to me to figure it out someway or another."
I disagree. You have linux-newbie@xxxxxxxx to assist.
You only need to share more information that will help us assist you.
;-)
I really APPRECIATE this list but hate to bother busy people
with my problems, especially when they're complicate and verbose..
Computers, today, are not KISS, thanks to so many crackers, spammers,
etc.. Most sites have telnet, ping and finger, etc, disabled these
days.. The more security, the higher the fence..
So, you are actually having problems sending email
and you are assuming that using dialup and DSL concurrently
is a solution. :-| Perhaps not.
Perhaps one does not get down from an elephant(*).
;-)
Not without breaking a leg, eh?? No, maybe the above clears
up what we need to do.
Perhaps a new topic should be started, ala;
"Does Verizon-DSL support POP3?"
Not really, in my case, as I want to retain my mailboxes at
kvinet.com..
Maybe a summation is in order: ADSL Web access working fine..
Getmail working fine, fetching my mail sent to haltec@xxxxxxxxxx;
plus the other four different users mailboxes.. Or to
lnx2.kvinet.com, a MX record to the former.. Whilst connected to the
VerizonDSL server using pppoe; I cannot answer, forward, etc any of
the received mail in the normal way, at least with Sendmail 8.13.3;
one of the versions that's more secure than old Sendmail, not running
as root... It uses "smmsp" as user 25, much like Postfix has it's
special user too.. I am not completely savvy on either.. Am I an
iconoclast?? I think so, as are all Linuxers, eh??
Hal..
