Koos van den Hout wrote: > > A subject way out of the range of the time-managers list but it is possible > (usually, depends on the flexibility of your adsl provider and/or your > willingness to do some serious config-hacking) to set up a speedtouch modem > not to terminate the adsl-pppoa session itself but forward it as a pptp > connection. This means you 'move' the endpoint to your linux or freebsd > server and run a pptp client there. This is probably the best solution. Unfortunately it can only be used when your system has a PPTP client. I.e. not on a Cisco router. > > (there is an advanced hack where you set up the speedtouch to do some weird > routing so your server has a pointopoint ethernet with its own public > address on the outside, but I can only find documentation for that hack in > Dutch) > This no longer works on the later generation of modems including the 780 that the original poster has. There is now a method in the GUI that they claim would accomplish the same thing, but it is unreliable. I have tried several times to get a bug report filed at the Thomson helpdesk but they keep explaining me how to use the feature, or send me old software that is OK but does no longer work on the latest hardware.
It is a pity. Using this method one could have the public IP address on an ethernet interface and have the modem do all PPP over ATM handling. This seems to be no longer possible, and even though I have done many searches I have not been able to find a new modem that can still do this. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
