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Telstra Bigpond Cable Modem with ASL ?

Has anyone got Telstra Bigpond Cable Modem working with ASL ?

I have setup ASL 4.000 with a PPPoE interface connected to the cable modem. I think I have installed BPALOGIN correctly, (it's running and trying to poll the login server).

Should I use a x-over cable to connect the firewall NIC to the cable modem or just a normal ethernet cable ?

This is tricky for me because the person doing the install in 3000 kilometres away so I can't pop down to check it out [:(]

Unfortunately the Interface shows as down all the time. Anyone ?

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0 jfeller over 21 years ago

Is the cablemodem realy running with PPPoE?
For my cablemodem i have only setup a DHCP Interface in Astaro.

I use a normal ethernet cable from the cablemodem to the NIC and it works.

But I don't now abouth the Telstra Modem I use a COM21 Modem...
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0 Simon Shaw over 21 years ago in reply to jfeller

I have traced the problem to the BPALOGIN daemon.
(http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download)

Feb 18 11:39:25 (none) bpalogin[297]: Cant connect to auth server - Connection timed out
Feb 18 11:39:25 (none) bpalogin[297]: Sleeping for 60 seconds
Feb 18 11:40:26 (none) bpalogin[297]: Auth host = dce-server.qld.bigpond.net.au:5050
Feb 18 11:40:26 (none) bpalogin[297]: Listening on port 1076

I have packet filter set to Any Any Any Allow. Version is 4.000

Any clues ?
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0 Marcel_01 over 21 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

add a rule like this:

'external_interface__ (where your deamon tries to send) 'any' 'any' 'allow'

better way would be having a look at the packetfilter livelog while connecting...

hth
/marcel
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0 Simon Shaw over 21 years ago in reply to Marcel_01

Ahh OK, coz the BPALogin daemon is showing in the packet filter violation log. Couldn't figure why when I had Any -Any -Any Allowed....
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0 Simon Shaw over 21 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

Adding rule Outside_interface Any Any works !

Why doesn't Rule Any Any Any work ???
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0 fredde over 21 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

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Adding rule Outside_interface Any Any works !

Why doesn't Rule Any Any Any work ???

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Well, having Any Any Any meening that you will let anything everywhere is generally a bad idea on a fw, so my guess is that that have removed the possibility to do that.
my 2cent

/fredde
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0 Marcel_01 over 21 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

'any any any allow' will allow any traffic through the firewall -> FORWARD chain
'outside any any allow' will allow any traffic from the firewall -> OUTPUT chain

when adding a rule, it will be inserted in one chain... any any any will be added to the forward chain, so traffic to and from the local firewall-interfaces are not covered by this rule...

hth
/marcel
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0 Simon Shaw over 21 years ago in reply to Marcel_01

You learn something new every day.
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