Re: [Linux-ATM-General] Q: How to go about troubleshooting a DSL provisioning issue?

[Guy E. <gu...@tr...>]

Not true for PPPoA - sorry.

- Guy.

On 7/03/2011 11:30 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Well, if you passively listen, you'll eventually get a frame:
>
> Mar  5 11:31:03 OpenWrt kern.warn kernel: solos 0000:00:0c.0:  
> Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.35 on port 0
>
>
> and I was thinking that might be usable to then figure out what 
> vpi/vci to do a "aread" or "atmdump" on.
>
> From that, you could match against a pattern to see if it looks like 
> an LCP frame or an IP-over-SNAP frame.
>
>
>
> On 3/5/11 9:15 PM, Guy Ellis wrote:
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>> Unfortunately auto-detecting PPP links as totally inpractical - you 
>> would have to send out an LCP request on every PVC!
>>
>> Based on your later emails, it looks like you should used bridged 
>> ethernet.
>>
>> See section 4 of the Geos Linux User Manual for tips.
>> If your ISP uses DHCP then bring the interface up unnumbered
>>
>> ifconfig nas0 up
>>
>>
>> Where is the user manual you ask?
>> If you go to the Geos product page, there is a link for the Linux 
>> User Manual top RHS...
>> http://www.traverse.com.au/productview.php?product_id=117
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>  - Guy.
>>
>>
>> On 6/03/2011 9:59 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> There's no utility to auto-detect the configuration?
>>>
>>> What about using atmdump?
>>>
>>> -Philip
>>>
>>> On 3/5/11 2:18 PM, Guy Ellis wrote:
>>>> Hi Philip,
>>>>
>>>> Try PPPoA, VPI = 0, VCI = 35 and see if that works.
>>>>
>>>> I've got to go to the football this morning, so I'll put up the 
>>>> lastest user docs when I get back and post a link.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>  - Guy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/03/2011 7:20 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>>> I recently moved into Frontier Communications land, and it's been 
>>>>> difficult getting support from them on non-Frontier issued 
>>>>> equipment (including being told the settings were 'proprietary'... 
>>>>> huh???).
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, I'm troubleshooting the DSL support on OpenWRT which is 
>>>>> somewhat untested on my Geos (which has the Solos chipset built in).
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using the config:
>>>>>
>>>>> config 'interface' 'wan'
>>>>>           option 'proto' 'dhcp'
>>>>>           option 'ifname' 'nas0'
>>>>>
>>>>> config 'atm-bridge'
>>>>>           option 'unit' '0'
>>>>>           option 'vpi' '0'
>>>>>           option 'vci' '35'
>>>>>           option 'atmdev' '0'
>>>>>           option 'encaps' 'vc'
>>>>>           option 'payload' 'routed'
>>>>>
>>>>> ("atmdev" just sets the unit # for the nasX interface, 'unit' sets 
>>>>> the port # on a multiport card)
>>>>>
>>>>> But this isn't working and indeed I'm seeing:
>>>>>
>>>>> Mar  5 11:31:03 OpenWrt kern.warn kernel: solos 0000:00:0c.0: 
>>>>> Received packet for unknown VPI.VCI 0.35 on port 0
>>>>>
>>>>> Can someone walk me through troubleshooting this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Glancing at the driver code, it's not clear why I'd be seeing that 
>>>>> message.  I'm running 2.6.37.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> -Philip
>>>>>
>>