[Cialug] actiontec modem with high load

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:34:58PM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
> Interesting, I might give this a try. Are you running your Qwest 
> connection at pppoa or pppoe? They don't "support" pppoe but it still 
> works. We haven't configured it on our router and only use pppoa.

I was previously using the Actiontec as a bridge for PPPoE for a
NetBSD/alpha router and was having trouble receiving email from
sites with broken path MTU discovery.  Tried using it as a PPPoA
endpoint and it seemed to fix the email problem.  So, then
because I want IPv6 connectivity (using a single static IP) I
needed a system that could, if not do the IPv6 itself, at least
configure protocol 41 forwarding at boot up.

Suffice it to say I've had trouble using this as a 6to4 router.
If I don't have it ping6 my workstations and servers it will
sabotage IPv6 connections by sending ICMPv6 address unreachable
messages to the remote host.  This may just be Linux 2.4's IPv6
brokenness.  2.6 support for the AR7 platform is in the works,
maybe that will solve this problem.

So, yes, I'm using PPPoA.

	Jonathan Kollasch
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