Hi Del,
Just a followup. The dhcp client worked! The problem seemed to be that he had all sorts of other bits of attempted configuration in there. Once he reset and tried dhcp it worked OK. I guess this means that Bigpond has altered their setup to be more open standards friendly..?
If it's of interest, I'll get his setup info for future reference.
Thanks for replying Del.
Stuart
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:56, Del wrote:
Stuart Guthrie wrote:
Has anyone setup these two to play together nicely. I've just recommended the WRT054G to a friend and bigpond are not being helpful as to how to connect. ie pppoe, ppptp dhcp.
I'm sure it can be done, but what incantation?
His setup is (hopefully)
PC . wifi card ~~~~~~ WRT054G -- CableModem -----------> Bigpond ^^ ethernet cable ^^^ Wireless
I'm going to answer this by saying that I'm reasonably sure it can't be done. Bigpond cable require a proprietary connection protocol that is not pptp, is not pppoe, and requires a specific login program that they only provide for Windows and MacOS.
For what it's worth, yes, Telstra saw the light and are gradually phasing out the proprietary heartbeat stuff.
New connections are straight DOCSIS, and existing connections are being moved over to the new network.
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