It may be a good idea for LUGS exco to engage IDA / service providers to ensure that the network access on NBN is not Windows & Mac only but is truly standards based..
Regards Anand On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Si-Min <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for letting me know about that 2 hour idle. > > My linux is limited to Webbased Distros such as IPcop, Untangle, Astaro > etc, not skilled in those crons etc. > > Anybody know if that NGB have such authentication too since it is one pipe > to different vendors. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Bähr" <[email protected]> > To: "Si-Min" <[email protected]> > Cc: "George Goh" <[email protected]>, "LUGS" < > [email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 12:52:36 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / > Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi > Subject: Re: [Slugnet] Cable broadband providers > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:50:14AM +0800, Si-Min wrote: > > I never visually confirmed this myself but I heard that M1 Cable > > Modem, you need to log in to a website before there is internet > > connection > > that is correct. after the login the connection stays on until there is > no traffic for two hours. > > > which I personally would avoid as the login is not > > something that the router would do for you after a reboot which means > > a pain for the rest of the home users if there is a need to reboot > > etc, further complicate matters with home linux based firewalls. > > if you have a linux based firewall you can fix the problem with a > cron script that checks if the connection is alive every few minutes, > and does a login otherwise. (the login is scriptable with wget) > > otherwise such a script would need to run on every machine. > > we went with the M1 6month contract figuring that, if it's not good or > if something better comes along soon we can get out quickly and are not > locked in for two years. we considered the 1year starhub offer, but we > found that the additional tv and phone are of no interest to us (like it > doesn't help us cut down our mobile phone bills), so m1 comes out cheaper. > > speed is fine. the only trouble at the moment is that for some reason, > vimeo is not allowing connections. (either vimeo is blocking the m1 > proxy, or the proxy itself is broken) > > greetings, martin. > -- > cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and > unix > searching contract jobs: debugging, programming, training and > administration > -- > pike programmer working in china > community.gotpike.org > foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org > foresightlinux.org > unix sysadmin iaeste.at > realss.com > Martin Bähr > http://www.iaeste.at/~mbaehr/<http://www.iaeste.at/%7Embaehr/> > is.schon.org > > _______________________________________________ > LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] > List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] >
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