Re: Strange PPPoe problem
- From: Jacob S <stormspotter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:13:26 -0600
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:27:26 -0500
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:58, Jacob S wrote:
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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.
Thanks, but I'd rather keep playing with Linux to figure out why it's
not working than dump more money into the problem. My solution to this
point is using my firewall as the only computer connected to the D-Link
router. It works pretty well this way, but it means I'm stuck with
their "firewall" on the router, instead of having full control from my
Linux firewall.
Jacob
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