The PCQ Linux 2006 :-P linux distro has a version of 'wine' that runs windows softwares directly from the fat32 partition instead of running them within linux.
The advantage is that all the windows system files are available in the windows folder.
So if the user is using a dual boot system then she can get wine setup to run the pacenet dialler on the mounted partition in linux. Never tried it though. If it works, the same dialer and account can be used in win and lin.
Well wine wont help here because Pacenet dialer uses "rasdial" command in windows in its backend. This is not available in linux as far I know. So the dialer gave some weird registry errors last time I tried in wine. The only way to get online with Pacenet in linux is to get an "@linuxuser" account and use rp-pppoe. I have been using it for more than a year and it works flawlessly.
Also I wanted to know one thing...24Online client uses pppoe or what? I mean do you get a global IP address when you connect from 24Online clients or is it LAN based like Sify.
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 10:31:12PM +0530, अिनकॆत (Aniket) wrote:
Also I wanted to know one thing...24Online client uses pppoe or what? I mean do you get a global IP address when you connect from 24Online clients or is it LAN based like Sify.
Don't know about pppoe but the ip address is a local one. The authentication server and dns too are local ips. Never set it in linux but have set it in windows.
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On Sunday 07 May 2006 22:31, अिनकॆत (Aniket) wrote:
Well wine wont help here because Pacenet dialer uses "rasdial" command in windows in its backend. This is not available in linux as far I know. So the dialer gave some weird registry errors last time I tried in wine. The only way to get online with Pacenet in linux is to get an "@linuxuser" account and use rp-pppoe. I have been using it for more than a year and it works flawlessly.
I've checked out the pacenet dialer. My first impressions are that its just a wrapper for the PPPoE dialer. Nothing more to it. Maybe its mangling some packets to make it incompatible with the conventional PPPoE clients. BTW you should know that some people complain that their speeds arent as good when they use the Linux account to login as compared to the speeds when you use the Windows account (obviously in Windows only).
Also I wanted to know one thing...24Online client uses pppoe or what? I mean do you get a global IP address when you connect from 24Online clients or is it LAN based like Sify.
You see 24Online is just a client. Actually Cyberoam is a bandwidth management tool. It's a Linux based server and 24Online is the client. It doesnt have anything to do with how / what network addresses are assigned to the PCs on the LAN. For eg. Reliance Powersurfer uses 24Online client and it gives everyone a public IP while 7star, who initially gave public IPs, now gives private IPs. The IP that you get doesnt have anything to do with this client.
अिनकॆत (Aniket) wrote:
The PCQ Linux 2006 :-P linux distro has a version of 'wine' that runs windows softwares directly from the fat32 partition instead of running them within linux.
The advantage is that all the windows system files are available in the windows folder.
So if the user is using a dual boot system then she can get wine setup to run the pacenet dialler on the mounted partition in linux. Never tried it though. If it works, the same dialer and account can be used in win and lin.
Well wine wont help here because Pacenet dialer uses "rasdial" command in windows in its backend. This is not available in linux as far I know. So the dialer gave some weird registry errors last time I tried in wine. The only way to get online with Pacenet in linux is to get an "@linuxuser" account and use rp-pppoe.
Correction, It isnt the only way, Check my other post. my pacenet username is rajeevrk, not rajeevrk@linuxuser (though i kinda like the second one :)
I have been using it for more than a year and it works flawlessly.
Also I wanted to know one thing...24Online client uses pppoe or what? I mean do you get a global IP address when you connect from 24Online clients or is it LAN based like Sify.
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