[AuckLUG] Re: Dialup problem with dialup to Xtra

[Mark Foster]

> I accept all this but the problem here was not a Linux problem.
> The Linux chat scripts had worked continuously for over a year until
> thursday.
> My friend had not changed his configuration.
> To me it is obvious that the ISP or the Telephone exchange has changed
> something.
> We explained all this to the Filipino help desk people. They for their
> part had no direct contact with the Auckland exchanges  or with the ISP
> servers, and seemingly could not get access to the Xtra configuration
> files.
>
> I have subsequently learned this morning that another expert friend of
> mine with a similar laptop system could not log in in a Whakatane motel.
> His system has worked reliably for over a year as well.
> His Kinternet script log shows a slightly different error (it says BUSY
> when the phone line seems to be giving a ring tone).

My question as a followup to this John - do Windows users see any 
difference when they dial up?

As a test, could one be configured to log its PPP session then do a 
dialup, and perhaps the logs could be compared with those generated on a 
linux box experiencing the problem?

If the problem isn't hitting multiple dialup users, then notwithstanding 
any changes made server-side, the problem would seem to be mitigated on 
the user-side.  (Even if multple linux users are affected, by proportion, 
this will be a small number of customers;... Id be suprised if there were 
very many linux users who were also regular dialup users.)

Mark.