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1 JeremyArnold 1 After many sleepless nights I bring you:
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3 !!!Linux Wired Country Notes
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2 JeremyArnold 5 This is an addition to [LinuxPPPoENotes]
1 JeremyArnold 6
7 This is not complete, but I will work on it as things progress
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9 Details:
3 PerryLorier 10 * Region: Auckland
11 * Flavourrs: Debian, m0n0wall (freeBSD), XP (flatmates...)
12 * Gear: Wired Country IDL (Network adaptor, goes to antenna), Cisco ATA188 (uplinks to IDL, outputs Ethernet, 2x VoIP phones)
1 JeremyArnold 13
14 It appears that the IDL will only give out 1 (one) DHCP lease, so if you want to connect a machine you need to power down the gear, connect the machine and power the gear backup to clear the lease table... If you don't power down the gear you wont be able to connect from any machine except that connected at first power up.. took me 3 days to find this out O_o
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16 Powering down the Gear:
17 IDL: just unplug the power ??
7 CraigBox 18 ATA188: disconnect ethernet cables (both link and uplink), wait 20 sec, unplug power. (from Cisco 186 user manual - Google it)
1 JeremyArnold 19
20 Powering up the Gear:
4 PerryLorier 21 # Connect IDL Power
22 # Wait a while
23 # Conect ATA188 ethernet cables then power.... If ATA188 light keeps flashing for longer than 20sec or so, unplug power for a few seconds
24 # check dial tone.
25 # Connect via PPPoE (if your computer hasnt already)
1 JeremyArnold 26
5 JeremyArnold 27 !! M0n0wall config
7 CraigBox 28
5 JeremyArnold 29 Note: I am using a Beta release of M0n0wall. There *may* be some issues with PPPoE in the stable release.
30 This is a breeze, just setup a PPPoE connection in the WAN section of the WebGUI.
31 Enter you user and passwd, leave service name empty.
32 Config your lan, NAT and firewall settings and away you go.
33 I've had some problems with PHP crashing on M0n0wall, but I think this is isolated to my system and not a PPPoE issue.
6 CraigBox 34
35 !! Notes from a WC user
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37 ;CPE: Client premises equipment, i.e. the radio and kit at the clients end
38 ;POP: Point of presence, i.e. the radio all the clients point to, in Hamilton it's on top of the Hosptal.
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40 I've been with WC since early days in the Hamilton. I've also been
41 involved with it since before I had a connection myself, as I worked
42 for Wave and we offered it to our customers. My first connection was
43 with Wave, staff deal and it was also helpful for diagnosing problems
44 with other customers etc.
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46 My connection is through Ihug now, they are fine as long as _you_ know
47 what your doing, do not expect their support team to be of any use if
48 you run into trouble. You'll get the standard "Reboot your CPE", "We'll
49 just take a look at your network settings, right click your Network
50 Neighbour...." the usual stuff, mention Linux and you'll get silence.
51 Ihug use PPPoe and it works beautifully. I chose Ihug because they
52 offer the cheapest deal I could find at the time.
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54 Wired Country have more outages than they would care to publicise.
55 Sometimes you'll need to power cycle the CPE, this is fairly common
56 after WC push out firmware updates for the CPE (supposed to be seamless,
57 but you know how things are). Failing that you just need to wait until
58 they fix whatever is wrong at the POP (or their backhaul) most of their
59 outages affect everyone hanging of the POP, sometimes the outages just
60 affect the people further away from the POP, depending on what is wrong
61 with said POP. Lately service has been fairly good in Hamilton but
62 there have been periods where it has been really bad, ebs and flows...
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64 Faulty CPEs aren't overly common however it can be very painful diagnosing
65 one, especially if your ISP's support people are not up with the play
66 (there is a little more to it than a windows dialup connection).
67 Persistence is key.
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69 Your best method for troubleshooting a problem would actually be to
70 contact another person that uses the service and points to the same
71 POP, if your both down it's likely the POP (if it's not your ISP doing
72 something silly).
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74 When there are problems clients need to call their ISP in the first
75 instance, do not call WC directly - THEY DO NOT LIKE IT.
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77 When the service is going well it ROCKS, when it's not it is incredibly
78 frustrating. Just make sure you have a el cheapo dial up connection
79 or something available if you can't live without the Internet for a few
80 hours every other month or two.
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82 If you can get it, do.
83
84 Cheers,
85 James.
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