On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:50:06PM +0100, Andrew Meredith wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I am having a problem getting a second Speedtouch 330 set up on my FC5 
> router/firewall. Up to press I have been using a pair of ADSL routers on 
> two ethernet cards, which has been working ok, but would like to 
> simplify the BoM and get more control over the WAN endpoints.
> 
> Getting one Speedtouch 330 up and running was no issue, but the second 
> one gets caught up with the first and in fact bings both lines down.
> 
> I suspect the issue is that both ISPs use VPI=0, VCI=38 and as this is 
> now presented in the same kernel, they are now clashing where they 
> wouldn't in two separate boxes. As I doubt that I can get either ISP to 
> change their settings, I suspect that this is game over for this 
> approach ... but would like confirmation from someone who knows more 
> about this stuff than I do.

VPI/VCI numbers are per interface, so this shouldn't be a problem.
However, I know that the pppd pppoatm plugin always uses the default
ATM interface, so that may be where you are having issues. I wrote my
own plugin at one point, which you can try, if you want.

> 
> In case it is important, I am using the kernel drivers and PPPoA on 
> Eclipse and PlusNET, with 8 IP addresses from each.
> 
> Hope someone can help
> 
> Andy M

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