Saturday, August 11, 2007

Pacenet HOWTO for Linux users

As you know my ISP is pacenet-india (doesn't matter anyway if you don't know), I would like to make a small HOWTO for linux users for connecting to pacenet.
They use raspppoe on windoze to make a pppoe connection. And typically they do not support linux, as the case with many other ISPs. If you are a pacenet user and you want to connect to internet from linux, you will need a '@linuxuser' account. You will have to call at their customer care, numbers given below. Make a request for yourloginname@linuxuser account. Just append @linuxuser to your existing account id.
CC numbers:

Then you will need rp-pppoe package, which can be downloaded from here(rpm deb packages are also available, search for them) : http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/

Then run pppoe-setup
It ask for your username, type in username@linuxuser
Then it will ask for NIC card, type in eth0
Then it will ask if you want this connection on demand or always on, type in your choice
Then type in your password when asked for it
It will ask you if you want to write the current config to the file pppoe.conf , say yes (quite obvious)

Then run pppoe-discovery, you should get a list of access concentrators on your network. Remember the one which was told to be working by your cable guy(in case there are many)
Here is a catch, you have to edit /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf file and change the ACNAME and SERVICENAME fields. Put the names as shown by pppoe-discovery. Say for example it showed akd as ACNAME and cable as SERVICENAME then fill in those. save pppoe.conf file.

Type in pppoe-start, hit enter. You are done!

1 comment:

Tushar Shah said...

Hi,

I have followed your steps to configure pacenet internet on Fedora 14 but it doesn't seem to be working. I couldn't get separate linux id from Pacenet so i used windows id itself. but its not working. Can you please help?

Regards,
Tushar Shah