From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jun 19 14:42:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E5737B405 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@hak.Awfulhak.org [IPv6:2001:6f8:602:1::12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5JLgZMt078982; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:42:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:42:29 +0100 From: Brian Somers To: Mike Tancsa 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> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020618203201.07212f30@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20020618163928.05018cf0@marble.sentex.ca> <5.1.0.14.0.20020618163928.05018cf0@marble.sentex.ca> <5.1.0.14.0.20020618203201.07212f30@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20020619153843.04ac1868@marble.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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 > -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message