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 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 Admin Utility. This
change will come with all of PPPoE's attendant problems, apparently.
At least it looks like the former Airport-specific PPPoE problems
have been resolved with the new software.
I received several responses about PPPoE/ADSL problems from some US
ADSL users who had nightmares with PPPoE disconnections and flakiness.
"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."
I have a method to do this in an OS X command line; will share with
anyone who's interested, as I expect it might affect other
subscribers.
There AFAIK are three ways to connect to ADSL:
1. Computer running PPPoE client connected via USB or Ethernet to ADSL modem.
2. Computer connected to LAN connected to Ethernet ADSL modem running raw
Ethernet over ADSL.
3. Computer connected to Airport Base (running PPPoE), in turn connected
via Ethernet to an ADSL modem.
If you are currently running option 2, (which I'm not actually convinced of
given the information I have - I think you're using option 1 over Ethernet)
I'm not.
I've repeatedly said that I'm using an Airport base station and an
Ethernet ADSL modem. I'm currently running option 3, _without_ the
PPPoE. Iiinet isn't switching to using PPPoE for Home accounts for
several weeks yet (as I said in my initial email), and I haven't yet
switched from my Corporate to a Home account. I was using option 2
before I bought the Base Station.
I'll try again.
Current configuration:
ADSL modem (Alcatel Speed Touch Home ethernet model) ---ethernet
cable------airport 2 base station (Ethernet/Manually
configured)-----waves on the aether----ibook with airport card.
Future configuration:
ADSL modem (Alcatel Speed Touch Home ethernet model) ---ethernet
cable------airport 2 base station (running PPPoE)-----waves on the
aether----ibook with airport card.
(the base station is separately cabled to a hub to the rest of the
LAN, but I'll ignore that for now).
you need to add a PPPoE client to the system in some way
It's built into the Airport Base Station.
(and likely change the modem).
This is incorrect, according to iinet. Why would I need to change the modem?
--
Lara Hopkins
