From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 14:52:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f56.law6.hotmail.com [216.32.241.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B6A37B4CF; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:52:21 -0700 Received: from 203.11.225.5 by lw6fd.law6.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:52:21 GMT X-Originating-IP: [203.11.225.5] From: "Aaron Hill" To: julian@elischer.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on PPPoE & ADSL (Telstra Bigpond) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:52:21 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Oct 2000 21:52:21.0771 (UTC) FILETIME=[04B13DB0:01C03F97] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Firstly thanks for your reply. >It may "just work" if you power down and restart the DSL modem... >it caches the local ethernet address sometimes and won't work with >another.. > >(I notice that the windows and Linux are the same (different) machine >from that used >by BSD.. The DSL modem, once initialised to that machine may refuse to >work correctly with the >other machine (I've seen this many times) Good spot, I forgot to mention that. I'm pretty sure my ISP/modem doesn't have this restriction because a few times during my testing. The Windows and Linux captures were made from my desktop machine but I've also switched the connection between my work laptop (linux) and my desktop in a space of seconds and have always managed to get connected. Just to confirm though I did try your suggestion but it didn't work. I'll be happy to try most things (ritual sacrifice?) to get this working! Out of interest the adsl modem I have is called an Alcatel Speed Touch Home. I haven't had a reason to doubt it yet either, it seems a pretty reliable device. >on the other hand it DOES look as if you are getting part way through >the initialisation. >I don;t understand why the provider comes back with seven service >names, unless he is offering you seven possibilities. He however is NOT >providing an AC-name! > >very wierd Isn't it! The AC-Name is not returned in the Concentrators response yet in FreeBSD's next request it knows the AC-Name... ? Um. What's going on? The AC-Name is not in any config file and I've got the same situation after rebooting which would have cleared at any ARP caches etc. I've also tried disabling ARP on the FreeBSD interface connecting to the modem (i.e. -ARP in ifconfig) which some people seem to use in some newsgroup/mailing list archives I've seen. I've also tried different interfaces, different IP addresses, different media settings, browsing the netgraph source, about a hundred different ppp.conf options (I've got a very basic config now, just to test PPPoE discovery) etc etc. My struggle (and Peter's) continues. Aaron Hill _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message