[plug] [OT] bur.st unreachable

[Ben Jensz]

Harry wrote:

>
>Scuse my confusion but Westnet said our bridged mode was the reason that
>we couldn't connect. It just came back about 52mins 33secs ago. When you
>say PPPoE, do you mean running on the modem ? Either way it's all very
>odd since different folks seems to have different symptoms.
>
>  
>
A bridged ADSL connection is when you don't have any authentication on 
your connection.  Essentially what happens is that your ADSL modem is 
simply a router and/or a network adaptor, and your connection is routed 
across Telstra's ADSL network.

What you've got is a PPPoE connection... you can put your router into 
bridged mode.. but you still have another device performing the 
authentication and handling the connection session.

The initial reason we got a bridged connection was because we have a 
network range (a /24 that we own) that is routed to our ADSL connection.

This is what a traceroute on our connection looks like (ignore the first 
hop) -

Tracing route to mirror.wa.3fl.net [203.31.12.18]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.254
  2     3 ms     1 ms     1 ms  adsl-gw.xxx.com.au [203.34.xxx.1]
  3    46 ms    45 ms    45 ms  dsl-202-72-158-xx.wa.westnet.com.au 
[202.72.158.xx]
  4    47 ms    45 ms    46 ms  172.31.24.178
  5    46 ms    45 ms    44 ms  atm2-0-37.perth.westnet.com.au 
[202.72.130.145]

  6    69 ms    45 ms    46 ms  vl1.perth.westnet.com.au [202.72.191.195]
  7    44 ms    46 ms    46 ms  fa0-0-4.op.wa.westnet.com.au 
[202.72.147.228]
  8    50 ms    49 ms    47 ms  mirror.wa.3fl.net [203.31.12.18]


/ Ben