[ale] I'm starting to hate ATT

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

    Must be one of the new modems... I've got the old Westel modem and I 
just throw it into pass through mode and let my Linksys running OpenWRT 
do the PPPoE authentication... never a problem.

Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 13:47 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>   
>> I finally installed the router today to get the normal speed.  Well it
>> seemed that I had to register via Internet Explorer at some site before
>> the router would log into their DSL system.  
>>     
>
> 	Strange...  I never had to do that.
>
>   
>> After about 2 hours of surfing I was greeted with this page
>>     
>
>   
>> http://support.opsdc.com/~cfowler/WTF.png
>>     
>
>   
>> Clicking disable took me to the router's summary page but it still would
>> not allow me to browse anything.  I eventually clicked restart and I can
>> browse again.  All other traffic like mail, ssh, etc worked fine.
>>     
>
> 	I've never run into this one either but I can take a pretty good guess
> what it means.
>
> 	Gateways within gateways are generally not a problem, except in once
> case.  If they are both trying to use the same private address space,
> you may be in for troubled times.
>
> 	I know the Westel modems initially try to use 192.168.1.0/24.  If
> you've got a wireless router or other NAT device that is ALSO trying to
> use that address block, you're going to end up with address conflicts
> and I think that's what that error screen is warning you about.
>
> 	I suspect what would happen if you had clicked on "resolve" is that it
> would have searched for another private address subnet to use and
> reconfigured the modem but that's kind of a WAG at this point.
>
> 	Are you running the modem in managed mode or bridged mode?  Managed
> mode would be where it's handling the PPPoE session for you and you pull
> and address via dhcp from the modem.  Bridge mode, you're expected to
> handle the PPPoE session in your equipment and the dhcp addresses from
> the modem only connect you to the modem's administrative interface.
>
> 	What model modem?  Are you configured for a static address?
>
>   
>> Chris
>>     
>
> 	Mike
>   
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