[ale] BellSouth ADSL and LinkSys Router problem?

[John Mills]

ALErs -

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Pete Hardie wrote:
> I recently got BellSouth ADSL and the popular LinkSys EtherFast DSL router.
> So far, everything seems ok, but a coworker has mentioned that he has seen
> a problem where the the internal side address of the router is exposed to
> the ouside world, causing problems with collisions/reassignment and loss
> of DSL PPPoE connection.

> Does anyone know more about this?  Or is it some problem fixed in an update?

I asked a colleague who uses the LinkSys 4-port model from home: PPPoE
to Mindspring, and using a VPN connection to work from home.

She reports, _yes_ - she had problems with stability of PPPoE sessions
until she upgraded the firmware, and that solved it. General InterNet
activity is now solid and she has no further problems with PPPoE
stability. She still has occasional breaks of her VPN sessions, generally
after a long period of inactivity. She has not been able to track this
down yet.

Apparently there was a PPPoE problem and apparently it was fixed.

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Regards -
 John Mills

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