Re: Strange PPPoe problem
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.
>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
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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. :-)
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