Yes this is a common problem with BPD. I get it with nearly every new BPD account. A tracetoute will show it ending up in Perth somewhere (it used to be Paddington 8). Give 1800 066 594 a call and ask then to correct their advertisements.
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote: > From: "John Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't have any problem with my outgoing IP traffic. My routing > > table is fine. It is IP traffic that should be coming in that is the > problem. > > Traceroute shows that the packets are lost on the Telstra network. I can > > sort of work around the problem by masquarading my packets to my PPP > > IP number. But this prevents some applications that embed IP addresses > > within the messages themselves (eg NetMeeting). I would rather have the > > subnet Telstra has assigned me work. > > Assuming it's been more than 4 hours since you added the route, give BPD > helpdesk (1800 066 594) a ring, and tell them to find out why your route > hasn't flowed through the network.. - push em hard enough, and they'll flush > the routes right there and then.. (That's always fun to watch.. - sit there > with traceroutes running, and you can see all routes across aus drop, then > (over about a 30-second period) fan out across the country :) > > But yeah, if you've setup your routes in custdata, left it until the > 4-hourly update (8am, 12am, 4pm, 8pm, unless they've changed it in the last > 12 months), but a traceroute from telstra (www.telstra.net/cgi-bin/trace) > doesn't end up coming in your link, it's a telstra fault, and they have 4 > hours to find the fault, and a further 4 fix it IIRC.. :) Don't let them > tell you otherwise.. - I had a route change (from a vic pop to an act pop) > not go through on a friday night, and had the tech on duty on saturday > morning tell me that he wasn't allowed to do a routing reload, and would I > mind waiting till monday morning cause he didn't want to have to get an > engineer out on the weekend to do the reload.. - he ended up getting the > engineer out.. :) > > HTH, > > DG > > -------------- > Damien Gardner Jnr - Dip.EE StudIEAust VK2TDG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.rendrag.net/ > Ph: 0417 055 052 - Fax: 02 6255 8663 > -- A hard-on does NOT count as personal growth. > > > > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
