At 11:51 8/02/02 +0800, Lara Hopkins wrote:
Onno Benschop wrote:
> 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.
I'll re-word that to: "Once you've re-configured your base station, there
will be no change.
This change will come with all of PPPoE's attendant problems, apparently.
There is no PPPoE problem, this is a furfy, it's a different way of
connecting. As you've already stated and others have added to, there
appeared to be an issue with the old PPPoE client in the base station. This
is a problem with the *base station client*, not with PPPoE itself.
I'm suspecting that iiNet has decided that they need to authenticate their
users because they're running out of resources to permanently map a
specific modem to an account. If they use PPPoE, then the authentication
username/password will link to the account, thus simplifying the process of
exchanging modems.
I received several responses about PPPoE/ADSL problems from some US ADSL
users who had nightmares with PPPoE disconnections and flakiness.
This is again, not a PPPoE thing. Packets do get dropped, hardware does
die, software does choke. ADSL is an amazing technology that provides
high-speed internet connectivity over a copper wire guaranteed to transfer
9600 Baud. If your PPPoE client has been set up correctly - I cannot
comment on the base station client - then it will connect if a request is
received to get to the net and no connection exists, otherwise it will just
send the request straight out.
I've had a 486 which is connected to the internet via PPPoE that has been
connected to the net for as long as 3 months *continuously*. Every now and
then it drops the connection when something breaks at Telstra's end. It
then attempts to reconnect within 30 seconds.
"PPPoE adds another protocol layer over your network packets.
Yes, what this means is that more stuff has to travel across the link to
keep the connection running.
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."
Dunno about this assertion about tweaking the MTU; I never did anything,
just worked out of the box for me. Hey, who knows if I do tweak it, then my
speed will go up by a factor 42 and I'll actually maybe hit the 3Gb monthly
cap :-)
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.
I *suspect* that this won't be an issue, but for the archive, would you
consider posting it here anyway with a disclaimer next to it?
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.
This made me laugh out loud. Don't get me wrong here. I'm using an Alcatel
Speed Touch Home Ethernet model to connect to the net also. I'm running
PPPoE on Linux and today I learnt from you that I could use it to connect
directly to an Ethernet only ADSL service if I wanted to.
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