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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
