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- Fri Sep 06, 2013 6:43 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
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Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
RT firmware has a half-bridge script pppHB.sh that may be of use with pppoa connection. I took a quick look at the script, which credits you as the author 5 years ago. It is too big and full of symbolics for me to understand easily. I found a discussion that suggested half-bridge is applicable to a...
- Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:51 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
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Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
Postscript: After thinking I had successfully converted my ADSL connection to PPPoE, I began to notice strange intermittent problems. Sometimes a complex web page would appear to have loaded, even though the browser indicated it was still expecting data. I captured the ppp traffic with wireshark, bu...
- Sat Jun 22, 2013 2:52 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26211
Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
I think it would be best to post it in this thread. Thanks. If you are reading this post, either you have encountered the problem discussed earlier, or you are just wondering why anyone would need or want to use a pppoe-bridge connection. This is a summary of my reasoning and the steps I took to se...
- Sat Jun 01, 2013 6:21 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
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Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
As far as documenting your specific problem is concerned, perhaps full documentation of how you got to unearth the problem would be helpful for posterity (i.e., a step-by-step account of your attempts at setting up the bridge, etc). Once again, thanks to everyone for your valuable advice. Which for...
- Sat Jun 01, 2013 6:17 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
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Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
PS: if you are not too fussed about losing the wireless functionality on your 1350A wireless router, then you could always install the non-wireless firmware on it (you would most definitely need to reset to factory defaults first). This would give you the core logic and tiatm versions that you know...
- Tue May 21, 2013 9:19 am
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
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Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
The problem with atm/dsp 7/05 and 1350A was a combination issue. We had the atm/dsp working but not in combination with the GPL kernel and Acorp core-logic, clearly something was changed in the kernel module interface which was used by the core logic. There may be an Acorp firmware with the atm/dsp...
- Mon May 20, 2013 8:32 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26211
Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
However, would there be any mileage in me learning to do a build, and then substituting the newer binary tiatm (with or without the corresponding core logic)? Would such an endeavor be doomed from the outset? If you can build linux, then you can build the firmware. However, substituting the binary ...
- Mon May 20, 2013 6:09 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26211
Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
Well, you've lost me (I did say that I was no networking guru). I have always thought that ppp0+br0 = pppoa, and that ppp0+nas0 = pppoe. I don't think that I've ever seen br0+nas0, so I have no idea what that means. You are basically correct as far as running pppd inside the same router . The big d...
- Mon May 20, 2013 3:33 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26211
Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
What do you feel about the "missing" nas0 interface in bridge mode? I realise the ATM device is managed by a TI closed-source driver, but I am having trouble imagining how linux software could achieve LAN-WAN bridging without instantiating a visible interface - it is possible, but very perverse. I ...
- Sun May 19, 2013 10:59 am
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26211
Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
The 1350A router has a different 'core logic version' and different kernel/drivers than the older non-wireless router. We were not able to get the 7.05 drivers to work in a 1350 firmware because Acorp never released the appropriate GPL sourcecode. What you see is correct. Thanks very much for confi...
- Sat May 18, 2013 5:24 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26211
Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
I've done some more tests and comparisons. I think I've found some differences, but don't know enough to understand whether they are significant. I could post a load of output from both routers running /usr/local/bin/diagnostics.sh - it would have the advantage of missing nothing, but would require ...
- Thu May 16, 2013 7:07 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26211
Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
Yes, the ethernet frames have different type fields in their headers: tcp/ip, pppoe discovery and pppoe session. All three types of frame will carry the same source and destination MAC's, but the "bridge logic" will have to handle these types differently. I still think I need to do some work on bri...
- Thu May 16, 2013 6:28 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
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Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
I've only ever had pppoa, and therefore my interest in half-bridging (which still works for me!), I thought pppoe full bridge was supposed to be an easy option, but I have noticed that it either 'just works' or is a complete pain! It is possible something is broken in RT firmware for you with pppoe...
- Wed May 15, 2013 10:32 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26211
Re: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
I think you know more about this than any of us! Oh... thanks very much for just being there! It is really VERY HELPFUL (no irony) to know you don't think I've overlooked something obvious. Once (not if) I sort it out we will all be wiser and I'll document the details as I go. Isn't there also a 's...
- Wed May 15, 2013 7:10 pm
- Forum: Routers
- Topic: ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26211
ppp0e bridge setup with external linux pppd
I am probably being stupid and have missed something simple, but I can't get this working. I have two solwise routers, both running routertech version 2.97, so I have been able to make a/b comparisons without having to change their configurations every time. I have been using pppoa for years to supp...