ISP-Hookup HOWTO

8. ISP specific information

More specific information for certain ISPs is available from a variety of sources:

Demon Internet

ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/linux/Demon/slack3.0.help.tgz

Netcom

http://www.netcom.com/bin/webtech/NetCruiser/Operating_Systems/Linux/linux.cfg.html

PowerTech, Telenor Online, Telia

http://www.kvaleberg.com/no-isp.html

Stanford

http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~wkn/Linux/network/network.html

MCI

http://www.kvaleberg.com/linux-mci.html

SISCOM

http://www.siscom.net/support/linux_setup.htm

AOL is not possible since AOL uses a proprietary protocol.

If you can supply ISP specific information not listed here, please get in touch.

8.1 How do I learn more?

The Linux Documentation Project book called Linux Network Administrator's Guide by Olaf Kirch is pretty mandatory for anyone that will set up and maintain anything involving TCP/IP and Internet

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/network-guide/nag-1.0.ascii.tar.gz

The documentation that follows each software package will normally give you all the detailed information you need, if not always the overview. The man-pages will be the first place to look. Try for instance:

man pppd

You will also find some documentation about certain programs in the /usr/doc tree, although this is not always well structured.

The following HOWTOs will be highly relevant:

• Installation-HOWTO will get the basics sorted.
• NET-2-HOWTO is a very thorough description of installation and setup of the NET code. Much of this should already have been done if you use a standard Linux distribution (e.g. Slackware, Red Hat, Debian). But many sections on setup and troubleshooting will be very worthwhile.
• Mail-HOWTO explains how to configure various tools. Again, much of this will already have been done for you when you install a standard Linux distribution.
• News-HOWTO is for setting up a (conventional) news spool.
• Tiny-News covers yet another alternative for collecting news.
• PPP-HOWTO is a good description of problems you may encounter when setting up a PPP connection.
• Serial-HOWTO contains everything you need to know about setting up serial ports.
• Mail-Queue tells you how to send up sendmail to always queue remote mail but deliver local mail at once.

Red Hat has a mailing list for PPP issues; to join send an email to

redhat-ppp-list-request with the subject line

subscribe

8.2 Thanks to

Information here is collected from many sources. Thanks to the following that either indirectly or directly have contributed:

Adam Holt <holt at graphics.lcs.mit.edu>
Arne Coucheron <arneco at oslonett.no>
Arne Riiber <riiber at oslonett.no>
Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra at troll.no>
Bjorn Steensrud <bjornst at powertech.no>
Gisle Hannemyr <gisle at a.sn.no>
Hans Amund Rosbach <haro at sesam.dnv.no>
Hans Peter Verne <hpv at ulrik.uio.no>
Harald T Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand at uninett.no>
Harald Terkelsen  <Harald.Terkelsen at adm.hioslo.no>
Haavard Engum <hobbes at interlink.no>
James Youngman <JYoungman at vggas.com>
Johan S. Seland <johanss at sn.no>
John Phillips <john at linux.demon.co.uk>
Jorn Lokoy <jorn at oslonett.no>
Kenneth Tjostheim <kenneth.tjostheim at asplanviak.no>
Kjell M. Myksvoll <kjell.myksvoll at fou.telenor.no>
Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho at math.uio.no>
Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus.com>
N J Bailey <N.J.Bailey at leeds.ac.uk>
Nicolai Langfeldt <janl at math.uio.no>
Ove Ruben R Olsen <Ove.R.Olsen at ub.uib.no>
R. Bardarson <ronb at powernet.net>
Steinar Fremme <steinar at fremme.no>
Sverre H. Huseby <sverrehu at ifi.uio.no>
Trond Eivind Glomsrod <teg at stud.imf.unit.no>
Tommy Larsen <tommy at mix.hive.no>
Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>