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1 CraigBox 1 A very useful, but a bit dinky, ADSL modem. (The 3Com HomeConnect Dual Link, named because it works over USB and Ethernet.) Actually, HomeConnect is a product range that has all sorts of stuff in it. Go see [http://www.3com.com] for more details.
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4 !FreeBSD Notes
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4 PhilMurray 6 3Com have done some very weird things to the PPPoE implementation in the HomeConnect. To be able to speak to this modem in FreeBSD 4.x you need to do the following:
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3 PhilMurray 8 sysctl net.graph.nonstandard_pppoe=1
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10 In FreeBSD 5.x, don't touch the above sysctl just set
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12 set pppoe 3Com
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14 in your ppp.conf file.
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16 And to stop the connection dying every 15 seconds , add the following lines to your ppp.conf:
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3 PhilMurray 18 enable lqr
19 set lqrperiod 10
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4 PhilMurray 21 Also, from FreeBSD 5.4 onward, you need to set
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23 enable echo
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25 As the LQR option was seperated from the LCP ECHO option.
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4 PhilMurray 27 Under linux you need to change the /etc/pppoe.conf to include this line below:
1 CraigBox 28 PPPOE_EXTRA="-f 3c12:3c13 -S ISP"
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30 to stop the connection dying every 15 seconds or so change the lines below.. the pings need to be less than 15 seconds apart on the NZ telecom network. i use 8 to be safe.
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2 CraigBox 32 # LCP echo interval and failure count.
33 LCP_INTERVAL=8
34 LCP_FAILURE=5