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RE: ADSL WORKING! (on Linux & Orckit ATUR3)
- To: haim(at-nospam)hageltech.com
- Subject: RE: ADSL WORKING! (on Linux & Orckit ATUR3)
- From: Dani Arbel <darbel(at-nospam)techunix.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 14:09:51 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Linux-IL <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <LNBBKDGIBFJLAPPDOONICEOKFAAA.rnews@hageltech.com>
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Welll..
I am taking care of item #2, and I already sent the Bezeq guy a note about
it.
You will still have to cancell your specific order.
Dani
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote:
> >
> >
> > Indeed, congratulations everybody.
> > This concludes all known Linux-Bezeq-ADSL as far as I know.
> > I wonder what the PPTP standard has to say about this GRE call type; my
> > guess is that the ATUR3 designers forgot something.
> >
>
> Hello,
> Actually, I think Orckit people are not to blame, and my fix solves genuine
> bug in pptp. "Call ID" is used in GRE encapsulation to distinguish between
> two separate virtual tunnels originating from the same IP. E.g.
> theoretically I can connect to two ISP at the same time with ADSL modem. Of
> course nobody does that, and I think ATUR2 modem simply ignored the "Call
> ID" field in GRE header. Now, ATUR3 is more picky about it (but it's not
> wrong, it simply follows the protocol better), and it silently drops packets
> with wrong Call ID. So I think Orckit people are not to blame here at all,
> and all we need to do is the following:
>
> 1. Contact PPTP author and ask him to merge in mulix' enhancements and my
> bugfix.
> 2. Make bezeq people aware of the fact that Linux in fact does work with
> pptp now (Right now they know that it does not, and propose the modem
> replacement themselves).
>
> I understand that mulix takes care of #1, and I will talk with Bezeq on
> Sunday anyway, so I can try to tell them that (I need to cancel my modem
> replacement :-))
>
> Haim Gelfenbeyn.
>
>
>
>
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