[plug] Bigpong ADSL (problem & solution)

[Simon Scott]

	Interesting. Im with bigpuddle and Ive never touch chap secrets.

	Another problem Ive been having is that pppoe refuses to connect
99/100. If I flood the link with connection requests, sooner or later it
will connect.

	My brother (who is in the know) reckons that they constantly have
problems and have to reset the 'tunnel' when this happens, altho with
windows clients they never connect because they cant start enough pppoe
instances to flood the link. Unfortunately, since Im on Linux, Telstra
refuse to escalate the problem even though I am telling them exactly what
the problem is (to a greater degree than a windows user could). 

	I asked the guy when Linux would be supported, and basically was
told 'never'. 





	From:	Matt Kemner <zombie at wasp.net.au> on 01-06-2001 12:58 PM
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	Subject:	[plug] Bigpong ADSL (problem & solution)

	Hi All

	I set up my first ADSL connection last night (for a customer, not my
own
	unfortunately) and was having major problems getting it to connect -
it
	kept telling me the PAP Authentication failed even though I verified
the
	password was correct (worked under Windoze)

	I tried everything I could think of (quotes around the username,
around
	the password, trying with and without the @bigpond suffix, etc etc)
and
	even a websearch didn't give me any clues, which was odd because I
would
	have thought someone would have come across the same problem.

	The solution (2 hours later) was to add the username/password pair
to
	chap-secrets as well as pap-secrets.  I have no idea why that fixed
it,
	but it did.  I thought I'd mention this here in case anyone else
	struggles with the same problem.

	It may have had something to do with the way the machine was set up.
	It started it's life as a hamm machine and was upgraded via slink to
	potato over the past few years to keep it up-to-date.

	I recently changed the sources.list to woody and used that to
install the
	latest pppoe software, so I could use the MTU CLAMP hack.

	Speaking of which, for those curious how to activate that - you need
to
	edit /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider and to the end of the pppoe options
add
	" -m 1412"

	 - Matt




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