Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:03:06 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Aaron Hill <hillaa@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on PPPoE & ADSL (Telstra Bigpond) Message-ID: <39F8AA1A.E9885B86@elischer.org> References: <F56gclDyGz2stY3Uyn3000010c7@hotmail.com>
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Aaron Hill wrote: > > > >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 I bet it's tcpdump only showing a limitted part of the packet.. notice that it's a lot longer.... > > 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. Shouldn't make a difference. > 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. the trick is to make the provider's equipment respond the same.. Maybe it's the ORDER we are adding in stuff. > > 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. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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