[aklug] Re: Mike B router issue

Greg Madden wrote, on 9/5/2009 11:42 AM:
> On Saturday 05 September 2009, Royce Williams wrote:
>> Greg Madden wrote, on 9/5/2009 12:19 AM:
>>> Thanks for the tip on poorly behaving routers. It turns out my
>>> Linksys WRT54 GL is my conection problem. I plugged the ACS modem, in
>>> bridge mode, directly into my box and use pppoe from there. No
>>> issues. This is the second router that doesn't do well, with ACS
>>> pppoe stuff ?
>> Could it be an MTU issue?
>
> i don't think so, tried 1400 -1460 in increments of 8. Tried quite a few
> things...
>
> The good news I put in a new router, Netgear WGR614v8, and all is well.
>
> It all started with my smoothwall box , I thought it was nic cards, etc.
> so I bought a Linksys WRT54GL, it never worked 100%, now the Netgear. I
> never suspected a new router would be the problem, Plugging the ACS modem
> directly into my box showed me the problem.

If the problem is reproducible with a specific piece of gear, that's a
golden opportunity to isolate the problem - and if it can be treated
on the ACS side, to do so.

Have you sniffed the traffic during the connection? Is there packet
loss or errors? In other words, what is the definition of "poorly
behaving"? :-)

Royce
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Received on Sat Sep 5 11:59:27 2009