I hate PPPoA

I have used DM111Ps in the past and I know Vigor 100/120s work also. As for checking sync rates, I have read people who have chucked a hub inbetween the Vigor and Firewall so that they can connect a system to it to access the management interface.

People seem to think the DG834 is capable of it though and as far as I can see it simply is not. Modem mode has no PPPoA capability.
 
I have the DGTeam firmware on mine, I'll try tomorrow when I'm less tired if I remember. Feel free to give me a prod about it :-) I am only referring to see if the options show up in PPPoa mode, and not to see if it works.
 
I'm still failing to see how £50 is too expensive if it solves a fairly strict set of requirements and has been confirmed by multiple posters in this thread to do exactly what you want. I mean the other option is to pour time into a bunch of routers that probably cost £15 less but I'd consider that a pretty poor use of my time if I was in your position.
 
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If I do buy anything it will be a vigor 120. However, I have a pile of routers here which claim to work in one way or another and cost me nothing - hence trying to get them to work.
 
I used my DGN2000 and have also used successfully 2x DG834GT's with DGteam in modem only mode. (no firewall etc etc)

Connected to my PPPoE devices sounds just what you are trying to do and worked fine the devices behind the PPPoE were able to firewall nat etc.
 
kerrgreg said:
I used my DGN2000 and have also used successfully 2x DG834GT's with DGteam in modem only mode. (no firewall etc etc)

Connected to my PPPoE devices sounds just what you are trying to do and worked fine the devices behind the PPPoE were able to firewall nat etc.
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His problem is apparently that his ISP doesn't support PPPoE at all, whereas many in the UK (including BT Wholesale and their resellers) do unofficially. The way most of us have been using the 834 in modem only mode sends whole PPPoE frames over the line (PPPoEoA), he needs a modem that will strip off the ethernet frame and send out plain PPPoA.
 
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Managed to get the RouterTech script working on a DG834GT but DHCP does not work, does not issue the WAN IP to the Firewall WAN interface or...anything for that matter. Not sure why, just issues it's LAN Subnet addresses (192.168.0.0/24).

Luckily I have a fixed IP so can manually set it on the firewall WAN IP.

pfsense was a NIGHTMARE to get going. I have to manually add routes and gateways from the shell (My ISP gateway is in a different subnet to given IP :o) and correctly masquerade for the return traffic.

Trying to get traffic shaping working and have had some success but it is SO damn complicated. the HSFC service curves and queue sahring is not quite working as expected to be honest.
 
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Any updates on this, I'm continually facing the same problem I need a solution that I can implement on quite a few different sites, vigor 120 cost is ok but I've heard of people having issues with them.

Happy to hack firmware or anything as long as the devices are readily available, dgteam looks to be a bit dead
 
I think your best option is a router that takes an ADSL WIC or has an integrated VDSL/ADSL port. Everything else is either a bit sketchy or turns into a black box as soon as you get a connection established, making monitoring the link a real pain.
 
stueng said:
Any updates on this, I'm continually facing the same problem I need a solution that I can implement on quite a few different sites, vigor 120 cost is ok but I've heard of people having issues with them.

Happy to hack firmware or anything as long as the devices are readily available, dgteam looks to be a bit dead
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We've seen a faulty batch of Vigor 120s where the Ethernet port fails to 10Mbps half-duplex and everything grinds to a halt. All replaced by SEG (Draytek's UK distributor).

My only other gripe is the single port, so if you want ADSL stat's you have to drop a live Internet connection.
 
Could someone please explain why the PPPoE is needed? I just don't get this bit. The Modem converts PPPoA to plain Ethernet, why do you need PPPoE in addition to already having the plain Ethernet connection with a public IP on it?
 
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Could someone please explain why the PPPoE is needed? I just don't get this bit. The Modem converts PPPoA to plain Ethernet, why do you need PPPoE in addition to already having the plain Ethernet connection with a public IP on it?
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It's to send the connection username/password into the modem to bring the link up. Why there isn't a device that you shove the ADSL details into and the single port chucks out the public IP address I don't know.
 
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