> > What plan have u subscribed to? I am using Tata indicom broadband over > > the WRT45G right now to compose this mail!!
I envy that...! Please read the details below and let me know if my setup is similar to yours. > AFAIK, for Metro Ethernet connection, tata indicom provide static > (public?) IP. One just needs to configure it. If MAC is also checked, > you can us 'clone MAC' feature available in WRT54G (v5) Don't recollect the plan name. But this is not an unlimited plan. They didn't provide a static IP and I don't think they do for limited plans. Connection just works fine using DHCP IP address from my desktop. I have been using it for over a year now. Secondly in metro ethernet type connection they do not provide a router at your place. So WRT54G is not a router for router replacement. There was no router at all at my end and now it comes into picture. (Some observations I made when I figured out the ACNAME issue: Just describes some details of my connection and what I find missing when the router comes in between. It had taken some struggle to get the connection work earlier. It turns out that ACNAME (Access Concentrator) must be set to VSNL_PUNEBRAS00 in the network settings for the connection to work. Try pppoe-discovery. It shows 2 AC names. One is the above one and the other is some junk looking word. Since there are more than one ACs, one needs to specify this one explicitly. Otherwise it tries connecting to one of them randomly. Somehow the other one gets selected more often and rejects the connection. Since it is random, even the correct AC gets selected sometimes. One may have to wait anywhere between 2s to 2hrs for that to happen. Specifying ACNAME explicitly solves the problem.) Thanks. Mayuresh. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
