Quote Originally Posted by newfellow
The KURUMIN alert is to substitute the script in "/usr/sbin/pppoeconf" with this one .....
David,

For reasons we are not going to get into here, DSL uses an encapsulation technique on the packets sent from a user's location. My system uses PPPoE, although I understand that in Europe some users have to use PPPoA. It's not surprising that in some other locatin there might be some slight difference to the way that these encapsulation protocols are being done that would cause the need for the change that you mentioned above, even if they are still using the name PPPoE to refer to the protocol.

However, when using a router, the router takes care of the encapsulation protocol. In fact, it pretty much has to, since the router basically takes apart the packets that you send it and makes new packets to send to the Internet, changing things like sequence number, reply to port, and IP addresses in the process. So the router sold in any area must know how to make packets that work in that location. The local computers that talk to the router don't need to run PPPoE software any more. They speak normal un-encapsulated packets to the router, which builds the final outbound packets as needed.

I have no idea what is going wrong in your sitiation. Maybe there is something really strange in the protocol that is in use there that would explain it, but I can't even guess at anything that would cause this. It likely will take some work looking through Brazillian websiyes about your style of PPPoE and routers, which I don't have the language skills to do. However, if you wish to keep looking into it and researching Brizillian websites that discuss this, I'll be glad to try to answer any questions that you might have.