[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #94 (alternating ISPs)
- From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe.daSilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:42:17 +1100
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If at first you don't succeed, read the instructions! <g>
The key to all this was the opening line of my original posting,
"Install my LSPPPCFG package ...", which was _meant_ to
imply "[by following the installation instructions contained in
said package]". (Obvious in hindsight, right?;-)
For me, "let's edit Arachne.Cfg and see what happens" is not the
obvious answer to the question "okay, now just how do I install this
thing?" (which would have been the first thing that came to mind),
but perhaps that's just me. <g>
Anyway, it occurs to me now that "Step 3c" can be simplified to just:
3c. Load your alternative configuration, then set your DNS addresses
to "0.0.0.0" (don't change the BOOTP option).
So basically, all you need to do is (a) Install this stuff and (b) change
each of your configurations to use DNS addresses "0.0.0.0". In other
words, in step (3c), you needn't type "cfg-ppp update" as I originally
instructed (although there is no harm in doing so).
Your comment "Every time I tried to convert the settings for the second
ISP, it set it up for the first one" suggests to me that you are typing
"cfg-ppp lsppp" for step (3c), which is incorrect (the applicable option,
as stated in the original posting, was "update", _not_ "lsppp").
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Mayman [SMTP:gmone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:30 PM
> To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #94
>
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> > From: "John Sparks" <johncsparks@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #89
> > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:08:08 -0000
>
> > I can confirm that Joe's package works, though I too didn't follow the
> > instructions fully (I left the DNS addresses in place)
>
> Once I realized that what he gave me in the message wasn't the
> set of instructions I needed, it all went without a hitch....
>
> ... for the first ISP anyway. Every time I tried to convert the
> settings for the second ISP, it set it up for the first one.
>
> Eventually I managed it by running CFG-PPP RESTORE to reset
> everything back to "zero" --- except for the profile for the
> first ISP which was in a different subdirectory --- then I loaded
> the profile for the second ISP, then ran CFG-PPP LSPPP for a base
> level conversion.
>
> > After running the config, Arachne connected first time. Note that I
> > had then to change core.exe to fix the time-on-line counter.
>
> I haven't noticed anything like that.
>
> > The only peculiarity is that the old DNS addresses are still being
> > used, removing them prevents access to web sites.
>
> Not in my case.
>
> I run an external batch file that copies the needed profile from
> an external subdirectory over the ARACHNE.CFG, acording to which
> ISP I want her set up for.
>
> Then the batch file calls ARACHNE.BAT.
>
> She loads up with the dialler page showing 0.0.0.0 for the DNSs.
>
> And it works for both ISPs!
>
> I haven't tried switching profiles while online which was what I
> wanted it for, as I suspect too many of the other variables will
> be altered, when all I really want to be able to change are the
> email username and password, and the reply-to, as well as the
> URLs for the POP3 and SMTP mail servers.
>
> The POP3 of course is no trouble since I have written the
> usernames and passwords into two of the shift-Fn keys for
> download from each of the ISPs.
>
> If you're interested, these take the following form:
>
> shiftF3 POP3://username1:password1@xxxxxxxx#1.com.au
> shiftF4 POP3://username2:password2@xxxxxxxx#2.com.au
>
> Greg
>
>
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