Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

2008-10-11 Thread benjamin
>Whereas I had an experience with Airtel in which their USB MODEM sucked >big time. The connection wasn't mine of course. It was for a friend. Why didn't your friend ask for an Ethernet Modem? I have their Ethernet Modem which rocks :-) for three years now. benjamin rualthanzauva http://brevnotes

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

2008-10-11 Thread varadarajan narayanan
Hi ! I think we are digressing from the main topic. We are wondering about Linux support by ISPs ! Cheers Varadarajan ThinTeknix On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Raja Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Girish Venkatachalam > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

2008-10-11 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is correct. I am a big/avid fan of BSNL and Indian govt. in > general. For instance I use SBI for banking. > > BSNL gives superb broadband service. BSNL service and customer support is not universally good -- t

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

2008-10-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:15:23 Oct 11, Mohan R wrote: > Linux plays very well with BSNL also. > That is correct. I am a big/avid fan of BSNL and Indian govt. in general. For instance I use SBI for banking. BSNL gives superb broadband service. I use BSNL for landline telephoy (there is no better choice) and also

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

2008-10-11 Thread varadarajan narayanan
Thanks Guys ! My concern arose out of the problems I saw in various forums on-line ! Here are some random samples *** *May 15th, 2008, 11:55 PM Can u please help me with the sify dialer in ubuntu im using feisty

[Ilugc] [OT] Open source traffic management

2008-10-11 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
Hi chennaites, I was wondering whether it is possible for us to get togehter to solve one of Chennai's biggest emerging crisis - traffic. A big technology and community opensource project. Ofcourse this will not be chennai specific. Phase 1 : Get people follow rules (we need this for any traffic

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

2008-10-11 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:45 PM, varadarajan narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ! > > I have seen posts about ISP not supporting Linux. > Is this true ? Can we make a list of ISP who support Linux ? > Or list of ISP where Linux does not work or supported / Hathway provides me with static IP

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

2008-10-11 Thread Mohan R
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ashok Gautham wrote: > On 10/10/08, varadarajan narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi ! >> >> I have seen posts about ISP not supporting Linux. >> Is this true ? Can we make a list of ISP who support Linux ? >> Or list of ISP where Linux does not

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Live CDs

2008-10-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 12:00:37 Oct 11, ??? wrote: > Dear LUGs, > When i am surfing in internet for simple mail and proxy > server, i found lot of live CDs and booting Floppy like 'Momowall, freesco, > coyote, live cd router ipcop and etc' for proxy servers. > >

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

2008-10-11 Thread Ashok Gautham
On 10/10/08, varadarajan narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi ! > > I have seen posts about ISP not supporting Linux. > Is this true ? Can we make a list of ISP who support Linux ? > Or list of ISP where Linux does not work or supported / AFAIK, Airtel supports GNU/Linux __

Re: [Ilugc] RE: Double IP in single Ethernet card

2008-10-11 Thread Ramkumarr 27
hi, tell ur doubt clearly. IP,Subnet Mask,gateway is enough. Sometimes DNS is needed. If u have DNS IP , just you put this IP in to /etc/resolve.conf file. Otherwise, If ur internet connection has DHCP option,just connect ur data cable in LAN port and restart your machine. Th

Re: [Ilugc] RE: Double IP in single Ethernet card

2008-10-11 Thread Muneer
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11:15:32 Oct 11, ??? wrote: > > > > What will be the remedies? > > Your question is not clear enough for someone to try answering. Me too feels the same. I believe I can suggest soluti