Bpalogin – Login client for the Telstra Bigpond Cable Network

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bpalogin is an open source login client for the Telstra Bigpond Cable Network in Australia. It is neither written nor supported by Telstra or Bigpond. It is both simple to use and stable. Unlike the standard client it does not crash, reconnects when there is a network problem, is available for most operating systems, can run as a service on WinNT/2k and comes with source.

Install bpalogin in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install bpalogin

This will complete the installation.

Configuring bpalogin

Configuration file located at /etc/bpalogin.conf edit this file using the following command

sudo vi /etc/bpalogin.conf

set your name where is says username joebloggs (or whatever your username is)
set your password where it says password goldilocks (or whatever your password is)

Scroll down to the very bottom of the file and change the following lines

#minheartbeatinterval 60

#maxheartbeatinterval 420

to

minheartbeatinterval 60

maxheartbeatinterval 420

save and close the file

If you want to start automatically you have to edit the following file

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

and make the following changes

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
pre-up /usr/sbin/bpalogin start

save and close the file. make sure you have a carriage return after the last line.

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