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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:40:22 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Aaron Hill <hillaa@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, paulh@chariot.net.au, ao@pobox.com, gcorcoran@lucent.com
Subject:   Re: Solved! R4.1.1 PPPoE with ADSL (Telstra Bigpond)
Message-ID:  <39F92356.9366E787@elischer.org>
References:  <F40X8KShPdHfKsp3MSi000012ea@hotmail.com>

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Aaron Hill wrote:
> 
> For those following my problems getting FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE to work with
> ADSL, that problem is now solved. Thank you to everyone on the list who
> responded or just spent some brain time on the problem, I appreciate your
> help.
> 
> Please read on for the solution.
> 
> What it all comes down to is my ISPs equipment is not RFC 2516 compliant -
> in the way I read the RFC at least. Their Access Concentrator would not work
> correctly with a PPPoE discovery session unless the the Service-Name tag was
> positioned as the last tag in the PPPoE payload. Following is proof of that.
> 
Can you find out what kind of system it is?
(And can you complain loudly? With a sample of the good packet producing
bad output?)
Don't forget to get tcpdump to give you all the data insttead of the 
default first 64 bytes.









> Of course anyone's welcome to the changes I've made but based on the
> descriptions above I'm sure you could replicate it yourself easily. I only
> changed the position of two lines in the file.
> 
> Thanks again
> Aaron Hill
> 
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