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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:07:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Josh Tiefenbach <josh@zipperup.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems using ppp(8) and PPPoE
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911122304320.18958-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991112233305.C8235@snickers.org>

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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Josh Tiefenbach wrote:

> > I think I may have an idea. You are sending a Host-Uniq tag in the PADI. I
> > have this funny feeling that my ISP doesnt like that. I'm in the middle of
> > running some tests to see what happens when I change pppoe_start() to not
> > insert that tag in the PADI.
> > 
> > (Yes. I know that this might break some things, but I want to see if my ISP
> > actually emits a PADO in response to the modified PADI)
> 
> Following up to myself, it looks like I was right on both counts. In removing
> the Host-Uniq tag, I see the following on the wire:
> 
> cerebus:~# tcpdump -nev -s 256 ether proto 0x8863 or ether proto 0x8864
> tcpdump: listening on de0
> 23:23:18.010000 0:c0:f0:22:35:e1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 8863 24:
>                          1109 0000 0004 0101 0000
> 23:23:18.728783 0:10:67:0:3c:ee 0:c0:f0:22:35:e1 8863 61:
>                          1107 0000 0029 0101 0000 0102 001d 3133
>                          3034 3130 3439 3931 3833 3632 2d73 6d73
>                          322d 746f 726f 6e74 6f36 3301 0100 00
> 23:23:19.005733 0:c0:f0:22:35:e1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 8863 24:
>                          1109 0000 0004 0101 0000
> 23:23:19.728640 0:10:67:0:3c:ee 0:c0:f0:22:35:e1 8863 61:
>                          1107 0000 0029 0101 0000 0102 001d 3133
>                          3034 3130 3439 3931 3833 3632 2d73 6d73
>                          322d 746f 726f 6e74 6f36 3301 0100 00
> 
> As you can see, I can now elicit a PADO from Sympatico. Unfortunately, it
> looks like removing the Host-Uniq tag breaks all that code which uses the
> Host-Uniq identifier to match which flow belongs to which node.
> 
> Comments?
Get an ISP that follows the spec?

complain loudly?

since you only have one flow, you could hide the host unique in a global
and pretend you found it in the PADO packet. ....

If you add it back (and don't touch the windows machine, does it fail
again?)


> 
> josh
> 
> -- 
> "To succeed in the world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be
> well-mannered" -- Voltaire
> 



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