My problems are over!! Well, this particular set of problems anyway! It all started with my desire to update to Bering uClib. My first issue was with dhcpcd. It appeared to half convince my ISP that I was coming from a different MAC address. I still have no idea why but I found that pump doesn't do it so now I use pump!
My second issue was with bpalogin and was caused by the package somehow deciding that the heartbeat required to maintain the connection was going to come from sm server = 255.255.255.255 when it wasn't! So when it got the heartbeat from the correct source it discarded it, and eventually disconnected. The solution was to tell the system the correct sm-server IP address in the hosts file and bingo, Bob's your uncle and hey presto, everything works!! Thanks again for your wonderful work supporting this package!! David Pitts IT Services Manager Reid Library University of Western Australia Telephone: (08) 6488 3492 Fax: (08) 6488 1012 -----Original Message----- From: David Pitts Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2004 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leaf-user] BPALogin uClib Problem Hi. Anyone out there know anything about BPALogin? It is a login client for Bigpond Australia cable that uses a heartbeat to keep the connection up. I connect ok but ehn get disconnected because the heartbeat is not being accepted. Can anyone give me a clue what might be happening? These are extracts from my daemon log showing a successful connection, disconnection and reconnection. Feb 19 12:31:42 firewall bpalogin[3213]: BPALogin v2.0.2 - portable BigPond Broadband login client Feb 19 12:31:42 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Auth host = 61.9.240.13:5050 Feb 19 12:31:42 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Listening on port 5050 Feb 19 12:31:43 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Will accept heartbeats from sm-server = 255.255.255.255 Feb 19 12:31:43 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Logged on as dpitts - successful at Thu Feb 19 12:31:43 2004 Feb 19 12:42:12 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Received a heartbeat from unexpected source 61.9.240.13:5051 Feb 19 12:42:12 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Badly structured packet received - discarding Feb 19 12:47:19 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Received a heartbeat from unexpected source 61.9.240.13:5051 Feb 19 12:47:19 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Badly structured packet received - discarding Feb 19 12:52:32 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Received a heartbeat from unexpected source 61.9.240.13:5051 Feb 19 12:52:32 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Badly structured packet received - discarding Feb 19 12:59:32 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Timed out waiting for heartbeat - logging on Feb 19 12:59:32 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Will accept heartbeats from sm-server = 255.255.255.255 Feb 19 12:59:32 firewall bpalogin[3213]: Logged on as dpitts - successful at Thu Feb 19 12:59:32 2004 This looks pretty straight forward to me in that the messages seem to indicate the client doesn't like something about the heartbeat that the server is sending, so its not accepting it. Is there anything I can do from my end to fix that or is it a server side problem? If anyone knows anything about BPAlogin, I would be very pleased to hear from you. Thanks. David Pitts IT Services Manager Reid Library University of Western Australia Telephone: (08) 6488 3492 Fax: (08) 6488 1012 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=ick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
