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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:42:29 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD PPPoE Broken ? (was Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)
Message-ID:  <20020619224229.55be2f1d.brian@Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020619153843.04ac1868@marble.sentex.ca>
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Can you send me a log of the connection with

  set log +lcp ipcp phase tun command ccp

Cheers.

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:51:48 -0400, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:
> 
> OK, just completed some more testing.  Something is definitely really 
> strange between FreeBSD's PPPoE and the ERX.  I have 2 FreeBSD boxes in 2 
> different locations, both that were working great off Redbacks.  The Telco 
> switched out the Redbacks and put Unisphere ERXs in place.  At these 2 
> sites, if I take out the FreeBSD boxes and put in either
> Windows 2000,
> Linux 2.4.x
> or a Cisco 827
> all works great.  With FreeBSD, I can browse and fetch data from some 
> sites, but not all. The problem sites, transfer rates become bytes per second.
> If I take out those 2 FreeBSD boxes and move them physically to a different 
> site where its terminated off a redback, all works as expected.
> 
> So it would seem one or some of the following
> 
> a) Something wrong with my config
> b) Something wrong with the ERX
> c) Something wrong with FreeBSD's PPPoE implementation as far as the ERX is 
> concerned.
> d) Something wrong with my Telco's config.
> 
> 
> a) is always possible.  But the same simple PPPoE config has been working 
> for some time and the first box in question only stopped working when the 
> telco switch the termination device from a RedBack SMS to the ERX.
> b) Possible, but all the other implementations seem to work
> c) Not sure where to start
> d) Again, certainly possible, but would it not affect all the PPPoE 
> implementations equally?
> 
> Any help is much appreciated as I dont want to abandon FreeBSD of course at 
> these sites for Linux.
> 
> 
> 	---Mike
> 


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