Re: PPPoE on WinXP

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Matt wrote:

> This is when connecting to a Mikrotik PPPoE access server. When I leave

You really need to do a tcpdump to figure out what's going on. However, I'm willing to bet that WinXP doesn't include a Service-Name tag if you don't supply one. That violates the RFC, which requires a blank Service-Name tag in that situation. The Mikrotik PPPoE server might be a stickler for RFC conformance and reject the PADI. My PPPoE server is a little more forgiving and treats a missing Service-Name as an empty Service-Name. Try seeing if WinXP works against the rp-pppoe server (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/)

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David.