Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:48:11 -0400 From: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dsl modem suggestions Message-ID: <20020806224811.A1776@skytrackercanada.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020806203113.03d76b08@marble.sentex.ca>; from mike@sentex.net on Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 08:37:52PM -0400 References: <minqkuoj4uhhbk39gu68uu7hlt0639p2tk@4ax.com> <20020801030135.A54643@skytrackercanada.com> <20020801082207.5f0a968a.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> <mailman.1028223962.54252.fquestions-l@lists.sentex.ca> <minqkuoj4uhhbk39gu68uu7hlt0639p2tk@4ax.com> <20020806183300.M10093@skytrackercanada.com> <5.1.1.6.0.20020806203113.03d76b08@marble.sentex.ca>
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 08:37:52PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 06:33 PM 06/08/2002 +0900, David Banning wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:53:34 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions > > > you > > > >In my case, my DSL provider -sold- me the modem, but he also said that > > > >I didn't have to get it from him. He said I could use -any- brand that > > > >I wanted. Given your explanation, that would be "any modem as long as > > > >it falls within such-and-such parameters." > > > > > > > > > > It might just be a bad unit, or you dont have the right amount of phone > > > filters or the filters are in the wrong place. We (an ISP) have used > > > Alcatel, Efficient, Daewoo and g.net, Cisco and by far the lowest return > > > rate we have had are with the GVC/Gnets. > > > >I have talked to GVC tech support about this. I operate in MPoA bridged > >mode and my unix box connects with ppp. They say that PPPoe mode > >is a better mode because the modem stores the logon and password in > >memory and handles it's own ppp connection. If that is the case I don't > >know how to connect to the modem and GVC tech support is lost here because > >they don't know unix. > > > Put it in regular bridge mode and do the PPPoE on your FreeBSD box. If the > GVC people or your ISP are not sure what you want just tell them that you > want to setup the modem so that the PPPoE is on on a windows box with > Enternet or RASPPPoE. Then on your FreeBSD box, use PPPoE. That is what I am doing right now. It works almost non-stop. Then, about every 2 months or so, it stops working. I can power off/on the modem and then it's ok again. GVC tells me that it is looking to speak to windows at that point. Specifically, they say, it's telling windows to send an inquiry to the user like "the dsl connection is down. reconnect?" Since it is connected to unix, it waits forever. It obviously doesn't always do this, because it reconnects by itself quite a bit. This wouldn't prove to be a problem if I was just surfing all the time, but I am serving web pages for people and also running a mail server. Having said all that, could you also have this problem and not noticed it, or can you say for sure that you do not? If you are problem free in this area, I can say that our ppp.conf files -do- have -some- differences; I am missing; > set speed sync > enable lqr > disable vjcomp > set lqrperiod 5 > set cd 5 > set timeout 0 and my sety ifaddr states; set ifaddr 209.188.66.29 206.221.248.4 althought I have a static IP. > > in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf add something like > > pppoe: > set device PPPoE:xl0 > set mru 1492 > set mtu 1492 > set speed sync > enable lqr > disable vjcomp > set lqrperiod 5 > set cd 5 > set dial > set login > set timeout 0 > set authname youruserid@yourisp.com > set authkey freebsdisgreat! > set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 > add default HISADDR > > > where xl0 is the interface that is connected to your modem. > In /etc/rc.conf > > ppp_enable="yes" #This enables PPP on startup (recommended) > ppp_mode="ddial" > ppp_profile="pppoe" > ppp_nat="YES" # Use PPP's internal network address translation or NO. > > > ---Mike -- She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot. -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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