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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:02:04 -0400
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.wjv.com>
To:        Aaron Hill <hillaa@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Solved! R4.1.1 PPPoE with ADSL (Telstra Bigpond)
Message-ID:  <20001027000204.A8452@wjv.com>
In-Reply-To: <F40X8KShPdHfKsp3MSi000012ea@hotmail.com>; from hillaa@hotmail.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 03:23:31AM %2B0000
References:  <F40X8KShPdHfKsp3MSi000012ea@hotmail.com>

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On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 03:23:31AM +0000, Aaron Hill thus spoke:

> What it all comes down to is my ISPs equipment is not RFC 2516
> compliant - in the way I read the RFC at least. Their Access
> Concentrator would not work correctly with a PPPoE discovery
> session unless the the Service-Name tag was positioned as the last
> tag in the PPPoE payload. Following is proof of that.

....

> So what do I/we do next with this information? Is it worth
> changing the FreeBSD source to accomodate for dodgy ISP equipment?
> I can't say what type of Access Concentrator it is I'm dealing
> with but if this Telco is using it I'd say others will.

> Of course anyone's welcome to the changes I've made but based on
> the descriptions above I'm sure you could replicate it yourself
> easily. I only changed the position of two lines in the file.

Well could you put just a bit more detail - showing the lines you
changed - or a diff - or just that portion of the module?

Bill

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Bill Vermillion -   bv @ wjv . com


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