Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2012-01-07 Thread percy piper
For the archives sake, we finally solved this. pppoe(4) never requests an mru during lcp negotiation (and acks any reasonable mru offered). In our case we were being offered an mru (1492) by the BT AC (BRAS) which we ack'd. With the mru agreed at both ends of the link our auth with the BT bras

Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2012-01-07 Thread percy piper
http://www.sinet.bt.com/506v1p0.pdf

Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2011-12-30 Thread percy piper
On 30 December 2011 01:17, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: I haven't seen this with pppoe(4) and any of: zen fttc, demon adsl (ipstream), aaisp adsl (ipstream or 21cn), bogons adsl (ipstream). OK thanks. That's a decent list of positives. Does your ISP have reachable technical

Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2011-12-29 Thread percy piper
On 28 December 2011 21:36, percy piper piper.pe...@gmail.com wrote: pppoe(4) did not work. We need to authenticate with chap first, then pap. pppoe(4) forces the exclusive use of either one or the other. Actually this is not true. Both use chap. There is no pap. The first chap challenge

Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2011-12-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-12-29, percy piper piper.pe...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2011 21:36, percy piper piper.pe...@gmail.com wrote: pppoe(4) did not work. We need to authenticate with chap first, then pap. pppoe(4) forces the exclusive use of either one or the other. Actually this is not true. Both

Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2011-12-28 Thread percy piper
Hi, we finally went live today so a small summary of how it went. pppoe(4) did not work. We need to authenticate with chap first, then pap. pppoe(4) forces the exclusive use of either one or the other. This was an unexpected gotcha and I will look at the code to see what can be done. pppoe(8)

Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2011-12-17 Thread percy piper
Hi Stuart and thank you for the excellent info. It looks like we're good then, our install is due this coming Monday so I will refer to your mail as we proceed through the initial setup. Oh, and for the archives s/FTTC/FTTP. Percy.

Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2011-12-17 Thread Diana Eichert
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, percy piper wrote: Hi Stuart and thank you for the excellent info. It looks like we're good then, our install is due this coming Monday so I will refer to your mail as we proceed through the initial setup. Oh, and for the archives s/FTTC/FTTP. Percy. What vendor for

Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2011-12-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-12-17, Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, percy piper wrote: Hi Stuart and thank you for the excellent info. It looks like we're good then, our install is due this coming Monday so I will refer to your mail as we proceed through the initial setup. Oh, and

Re: OpenBSD as router for UK FTTC?

2011-12-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-12-14, percy piper piper.pe...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone using OpenBSD as the 'front-end' router on a UK fibre (FTTC) broadband circuit? Yes, running it on an Atom-based system at a customer, works great. (It's a bit much for an alix/soekris 5501). We are due to start trialling a