Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-08 Thread Lara Hopkins
Onno Benschop wrote: Lara Hopkins wrote: Onno Benschop wrote: To connect to ADSL with the vast majority of ISP's you are required to use a PPPoE client, Not with Iinet's Corporate accounts, which is what I've been using up till now. Ethernet modem, static IP. From your perspective there

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-08 Thread Troy May
Lara Hopkins on 08/02/02 2:51 PM, wrote: PPPoE adds another protocol layer over your network packets. Many (most?) people needed to tweak their TCP/IP settings to drop the MTU (packet size) so that their packet plus the PPPoE headers will still get through all the routers. As far as I'm aware

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
At 11:51 8/02/02 +0800, Lara Hopkins wrote: Onno Benschop wrote: From your perspective there will be no change. Well, not no change. I will need to configure the PPPoE client on the Airport Base Station, rather than using the Ethernet/Manually option in the Internet panel of the Airport

Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-07 Thread Lara Hopkins
Hi, I hear that iinet is switching its Home ADSL accounts to PPPoE in several weeks. Has anyone here used this combination or similar - ADSL/PPPoE/Alcatel STH ethernet modem/Airport Base Station/OS X? I read about a whole lot of problems with Airport and PPPoE on the newsgroups, but most of

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-07 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 7/2/02 2:37 PM, Lara Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone here used this combination or similar - ADSL/PPPoE/Alcatel STH ethernet modem/Airport Base Station/OS X? Hi Lara (and others) I use the ADSL and PPPoE through a hub, and Mac OS X, and it works fine. Haven't had any real

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-07 Thread Onno Benschop
At 14:37 7/02/02 +0800, Lara Hopkins wrote: Hi, I hear that iinet is switching its Home ADSL accounts to PPPoE in several weeks. Has anyone here used this combination or similar - ADSL/PPPoE/Alcatel STH ethernet modem/Airport Base Station/OS X? I read about a whole lot of problems with Airport

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-07 Thread Matthew Healey
On 7/2/02 3:00 PM, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:37 7/02/02 +0800, Lara Hopkins wrote: Hi, I hear that iinet is switching its Home ADSL accounts to PPPoE in several weeks. Has anyone here used this combination or similar - ADSL/PPPoE/Alcatel STH ethernet modem/Airport Base

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-07 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 7/2/02 4:15 PM, Matthew Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little tidbit. Airport Base Stations are really just an AMD 486 cpu connected to a Lucent WaveLan card with some flash ram on the side. :-) Hey I knew that!! ;o) Wow,..something I knew that Matt did, I'm impressed,..mind you on the

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-07 Thread Scott
Hi, I hear that iinet is switching its Home ADSL accounts to PPPoE in several weeks. Has anyone here used this combination or similar - ADSL/PPPoE/Alcatel STH ethernet modem/Airport Base Station/OS X? I read about a whole lot of problems with Airport and PPPoE on the newsgroups, but most

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-07 Thread Onno Benschop
Lara Hopkins wrote: Onno Benschop wrote: To connect to ADSL with the vast majority of ISP's you are required to use a PPPoE client, Not with Iinet's Corporate accounts, which is what I've been using up till now. Ethernet modem, static IP. From your perspective there will be no change.