Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:40:22 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Aaron Hill <hillaa@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, paulh@chariot.net.au, ao@pobox.com, gcorcoran@lucent.com Subject: Re: Solved! R4.1.1 PPPoE with ADSL (Telstra Bigpond) Message-ID: <39F92356.9366E787@elischer.org> References: <F40X8KShPdHfKsp3MSi000012ea@hotmail.com>
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Aaron Hill wrote: > > For those following my problems getting FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE to work with > ADSL, that problem is now solved. Thank you to everyone on the list who > responded or just spent some brain time on the problem, I appreciate your > help. > > Please read on for the solution. > > What it all comes down to is my ISPs equipment is not RFC 2516 compliant - > in the way I read the RFC at least. Their Access Concentrator would not work > correctly with a PPPoE discovery session unless the the Service-Name tag was > positioned as the last tag in the PPPoE payload. Following is proof of that. > Can you find out what kind of system it is? (And can you complain loudly? With a sample of the good packet producing bad output?) Don't forget to get tcpdump to give you all the data insttead of the default first 64 bytes. > Of course anyone's welcome to the changes I've made but based on the > descriptions above I'm sure you could replicate it yourself easily. I only > changed the position of two lines in the file. > > Thanks again > 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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