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Date:      Sun, 18 Nov 2001 09:56:32 -0600
From:      jacks@sage-american.com
To:        "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: More PPPoE DSL
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20011118095632.00f91eb8@mail.sage-american.com>
In-Reply-To: <053201c17048$8fd2aef0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <3.0.5.32.20011117220014.00f8efc0@mail.sage-american.com> <3.0.5.32.20011118074636.00f91eb8@mail.sage-american.com>

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...yes, exactly why when time permits, I will go back to configuring the
PPPoE for the FreeBSD for all the reasons you mention, plus other benefits.
I've tried the DSL setup on several Win2K machines with same "bugs" as a
result... too bad, it was working so well.

Just wondered if anyone else experienced this with Win2K as a gateway to
the BSD.

At 10:49 AM 11.18.2001 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
>> Matt: Yes, I read Renaud's paper about that bug which had me thinking in
>> that direction. However, the settings in the registry of the Win2K
>machines
>> are okay being set at the 1492 mtu already.
>>
>> What is driving me bonkers is that everthing was working fine for the
>first
>> 8 days on DSL connection. After an electrical storm caused the Win2K
>> gateway's OS to become unstable, I decided to re-install everything since
>> it had been running the Win2 OS for almost 2 years.
>
>That's most likely the source of your problem.  I don't know what you're
>using for NAT on your W2K box, but I've done installations of W2K where LAN
>activities worked fine on one box and not on another, with the exact same
>install process.
>
>Personally, I would focus your efforts on getting PPPoE working on one of
>your FreeBSD machines.  It's a lot easier to tell what's going on using
>FreeBSD (thanks to copious amounts of logging) than Win2K.
>
>--
>Matt Emmerton
>
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

Sage-American
http://www.sage-american.com
jacks@sage-american.com

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