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

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 <[email protected]>
Arne Coucheron <[email protected]>
Arne Riiber <[email protected]>
Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]>
Bjorn Steensrud <[email protected]>
Gisle Hannemyr <[email protected]>
Hans Amund Rosbach <[email protected]>
Hans Peter Verne <[email protected]>
Harald T Alvestrand <[email protected]>
Harald Terkelsen  <[email protected]>
Haavard Engum <[email protected]>
James Youngman <[email protected]>
Johan S. Seland <[email protected]>
John Phillips <[email protected]>
Jorn Lokoy <[email protected]>
Kenneth Tjostheim <[email protected]>
Kjell M. Myksvoll <[email protected]>
Kjetil T. Homme <[email protected]>
Michael Meissner <[email protected]>
N J Bailey <[email protected]>
Nicolai Langfeldt <[email protected]>
Ove Ruben R Olsen <[email protected]>
R. Bardarson <[email protected]>
Steinar Fremme <[email protected]>
Sverre H. Huseby <[email protected]>
Trond Eivind Glomsrod <[email protected]>
Tommy Larsen <[email protected]>
Yves Bellefeuille <[email protected]>