[plug] westnet ADSL problems with Debian

[Craig Ringer]

> Not sure if this is linked, but the last week or so
> I've also been having huge dropout problems... it's
> been redialling 2-3 times per day on average, whereas
> it used to go at least a week. (This is on Netspace,
> not Westnet.)

Doesn't sound good - but I've been getting the 2-3 redials/day since I 
connected. *sigh*. ADSL is nice - PPPoE SUCKS!!! I've got transparently 
bridged ADSL with iiNet at work - it was up for more than a year 
non-stop 'till telstra's little accident a couple of months ago.

Sadly, wesnet support can't really help me since it appears to be a 
problem local to my systems (and a few others?), other linux users 
aren't having it with them. I'm considering ditching the debian install 
on the firewall and putting on smoothwall or something to see if that 
fixes it - but I /like/ having a flexible firewall.

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Craig Ringer
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