Re: Connection problems CNC ADSL in Beijing - MTU?

hey Jeff

could you post your /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf ?
i would take a look.

regards
marius


On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:05:10 +0800
Richard Ford <[email protected]> wrote:

> This probably won't be a good answer for finding the problem.  But the
> best option is to get a small DSL router (~200rmb) and let it handle all
> the connections and idle time outs... and then all you need to do is
> eth0 dhcp with your laptop on the internal ports of the router....
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> RF.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 01:04 -0800, Jeff Warrington wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have successfully gotten dsl working here in Beijing on
> > Debian but despite success with basic browsing, certain
> > operations fail to complete. From what I've found out there,
> > the MTU setting under pppoe needs to be set lower. However,
> > making this change doesn't help me.
> > 
> > Basically, any operation that pulls a file beyond a certain
> > size will end up failing. As an example, pulling the Debian
> > mirror list via wget (wget http.us.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors.txt)
> > pulls about 20% then fails with 'Read error at byte xxxx/yyyyy
> > (Connection reset by peer)'
> > 
> > Anyone have a clue on what I should try? I get the same issue
> > if I load up Knoppix.
> > 
> > One thing I notice is that when checking out the results of
> > ifconfig for ppp0, the inet addr is a completely different
> > network than the 'P-t-P' network. This is different from
> > any pppoe examples I've seen on the net.
> > 
> > 
> > 
>