Re: Strange PPPoe problem
- From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:27:26 -0500
On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:58, Jacob S wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Howdy list,
I recently changed ISPs, away from static ips on a dsl line to a
single dynamic ip on Veriz*n's new Fi*S (fiber optic) service. The
new service uses PPPoe - not a problem, or so I thought - I have
PPPoe on my firewall.
Now, I have used PPPoe from this very same firewall on a different dsl
line before and it worked great. But for some reason when I do PPPoe
for the new fiber line only http traffic works properly. When
downloading e-mail, everything is fine until it tries to download the
mail (I see it login, get the number of messages to download, and then
it tries to start downloading). At this point the e-mail just hangs
until it finally times out. It does not seem to be port-related, as I
have setup the e-mail server with port-forwarding rules to allow me to
download mail on non-standard ports and it exhibits the same problem.
And if I do PPPoe on the provided D-Link router, instead of on my
firewall, everything (including e-mail) works great.
Then I suggest you use it, as, provided you replace the d-link with a
linksys, something like a BEFSX41, you'll also have a very good
firewall for free AND it will all Just Work(TM). I spent 2 weeks
trying to make rp's PPPoE for linux work but like you, way too many
things just didn't work.
The security of the d-link product has been questioned at length on the
lists, and I can testify that the seimans speedstream product is
likewise rather poor, it was owned and trashed here inside of 2 weeks,
with outside config access supposedly denied from the WAN ports.
My linksys has let someone by just far enough to make a log entry as
they were being dropped by a combination of portsentry, tcpwrappers,
and iptables, 3 times in 3 years, 2 of which came from known sources
when one of vz dns servers was owned and attacked me. The third one
came from a chinese address block and didn't get any farther that the
log. For 3 years of 24/7/365 dsl service, I think thats very good
security indeed.
So, this problem has me stumped. I've tried playing around with the
PPPoe options in /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider, and re-ran pppoeconf a
couple times, but I can't get around the e-mail freeze. Does anybody
else know what might cause a problem like this?
TIA,
Jacob
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFEIsWmkpJ43hY3cTURAsrTAJ4mQR1eLZkyROcapMPQqSmNOJNWygCggb3i
yKSy9J3jbAWgjv42iZK3UZM=
=HAUe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Follow-Ups:
- Re: Strange PPPoe problem
- From: Jacob S
- Re: Strange PPPoe problem
- References:
- Strange PPPoe problem
- From: Jacob S
- Strange PPPoe problem
- Prev by Date: installation problems alongside windows 98 was 'help'
- Next by Date: Re: Receipt of email
- Previous by thread: Re: Strange PPPoe problem
- Next by thread: Re: Strange PPPoe problem
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
