[nzlug] ADSL modem for pppoe bridge

[Nic Bellamy]

Vik Olliver wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:02 +1200, Nic Bellamy wrote:
>   
>> The Thomson Speedtouch range support this, although they use PPTP
>> rather 
>> than PPPoE (ie. you use pptp-client to connect to the modem, then run 
>> the PPP session over that).
>>
>> Not the cheapest modem out there, but I've been using various
>> versions 
>> of them for about 7 years, and they're very reliable.
>>     
>
> Ahh, I still have my (t)rusty old 3com Homeconnect, working faultlessly
> awasy in the cor
>   
I tried these out back in the day, but found I had no end of MTU issues 
(path-MTU breakage). May have just been the PPPoE package of the time - 
this was way back in about 2001 though.

Cheers,
    Nic.

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Nic Bellamy <nic at bellamy.co.nz>