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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: More on PPPoE & ADSL (Telstra Bigpond)
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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
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