Re: [Linux-ATM-General] Due for a new release?

[Philip P. <phi...@re...>]

I'm using ADSL2+, just not the G.DMT stuff which is what I'm guessing it tries to train up with first.


On 12/28/10 1:21 PM, Guy Ellis wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> I'm just working on a new manual, and trying to build a full list of usefull ADSL parameters.
> If this trick works let me know and I'll include it in the manual.
>
> You could try turning off ADSL2/2+ support, that might speedup training.
> Try setting these parameters in this order...
>
> ActivateLine Abort
> BisACapability Disable {disable Annex A ADSL2 and ADSL2+}
> BisMCapability Disable {disable Annex M ADSL2 and ADSL2+}
> ActivateLine Start
>
> To set ADSL parameters use soloscli...
>
> <snip>
> Included in the driver tarball on SourceForge is a simple CLI utility to allow access to the ADSL
> parameters for each port. Usage...
> $soloscli -g Port Parameter
> $soloscli -s Port Parameter Value
> Notes :
> g = get
> s = set
> Port is the ADSL port number with a value of 0 or 1
> </snip>
>
> Cheers,
>
>  - Guy.
>
>
>
>
> On 29/12/2010 7:18 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> On 12/28/10 11:20 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> On 12/28/10 9:31 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>> On 12/28/10 8:40 AM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
>>>>> i have released 2.5.2
>>>> Awesome.  B
>
>>>> uilding now.
>>>>
>>> Well, with:
>>>
>>> astlinux, unmodified other than bumping linux-atm to 2.5.2
>>> keeping the experimental firmware on the solos PCI card
>>> and using the solos-0.11 download with the same patches as before
>>>
>>> it fails to train up.
>>>
>>> ...
>>> NET: Registered protocol family 8
>>> NET: Registered protocol family 20
>>> Solos PCI Driver Version 0.11 svn-25
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Solos FPGA Version 0.03 svn-38
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Registered ATM device 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Registered ATM device 1
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Port 0: HandShake
>>> Bridge firewalling registered
>>> eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
>>> device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
>>> eth1: link down
>>> device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
>>> Bringing up br1 as 192.168.0.2
>>> br1: topology change detected, propagating
>>> br1: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
>>> Sleeping for 30 seconds before I bring up ppp0...
>>> Attempting to bring up PPPoA on atm0
>>> This could take some time...
>>> PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
>>> NET: Registered protocol family 24
>>> Starting ppp.............................. timeout!
>>> Pppd timed out waiting for negotiation!
>>>
>>>
>>> not sure why this would fail.  I'm using PPPoA.  From dmesg:
>>>
>>> Device: 0 Vpi: 0 Vci: 32
>>> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
>>> nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (8192 buckets, 32768 max)
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Port 1: Idle
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Port 1: HandShake
>>> Device: 0 Vpi: 0 Vci: 32
>>> Device: 0 Vpi: 0 Vci: 32
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Port 1: Idle
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Port 0: Idle
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Port 1: HandShake
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Port 0: HandShake
>>> Device: 0 Vpi: 0 Vci: 32
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Port 0: Training
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Port 0: Showtime @1536/896 kb/s, SNR 29.5 dB, Attn 27.5 dB
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> solos 0000:00:0c.0: Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.32 on port 0
>>> Device: 0 Vpi: 0 Vci: 32
>>>
>>>
>>> If I kill and restart pppd it works.
>>>
>>
>> Not sure what might have changed, but the link is taking longer to come up than before.
>>
>> Would be nice to be able to limit the profile (Annex A/T1.413) that it tries to train up as, but that's not an option.
>>
>> If I bump the "sleep 30" to "sleep 90" then it works.
>>
>> -Philip