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 <[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]>