[afnog] ppp.conf help

[Jaco Engelbrecht]

Hi Alan,

Alan Levin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to configure my pppoe connection (using my home freebsd  
> gateway) to try a second username when the first account caps. (or  
> teach my wife how to edit ppp.conf herself, but this is less ideal  
> for a many reasons). There are a few convoluted ways I considered but  
> I'm looking for something simple. I've read userppp in the handbook,  
> and I'm sufficiently incapable.
>   
The main problem is basically trying to determine when your account has 
reached its cap.  The rest is pretty easy.

SAIX don't use different IP ranges any more.  On SAIX, capping is either 
'hard', i.e. you would not be able to authenticate, or 'soft' whereby an 
ACL (ISP specific or a SAIX default one) is applied.  Knowing the 
details of the ACL, one could therefore make some conclusions as to the 
capping status of the account.  The SAIX default ACL allows HTTP access 
only to www.telkom.co.za and www.saix.net.

On Internet Solutions's DSL solution, the behaviour is somewhat 
different.  If you're using an ISDSL account, I can let you know more 
details on that.

If you want to mail me details about the account off-list, I can write a 
script for you which would be able to determine when your account has 
reached its cap, and then switch accounts.  Or perhaps, with the above 
information, you can do it yourself :-)

Jaco
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