[39609] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPPOE, MTU, and boom.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Wed Jul 18 11:56:38 2001
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:55:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Cc: Jamie Bowden <jamie@photon.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> While I agree, It's 10498% easier when you have a cluless DSL customer on
> the horn, and you want to change thier MTU, if you use this app rather
> than trying to explain to them what a registry even is.
Not being a real windows know-it-all, this is a guess, but I had to diddle
with registry settings yesterday to get Outlook to stop crashing on
startup.
Short version is that you can export a "piece" of the registry as a .reg
file. It seems you could go to the section where MTU is set and export
it, and then simply put a link to the file on your support site. Have the
user clicky-click on the link and answer "yes" to everything, and wham-o.
A similar example is here:
http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks?item=RWIN
A bit off-track, but can anyone using Redback stuff give a quick yes/no to
this:
Can the Redback, on a 1483-bridged customer where the pvc is known do dhcp
based on the pvc the dhcp request comes from? What other trickery does it
do if you are dead-set against PPPoE but still need some authentication
and enforcement of addresses?
Alex - Does VZ do one pvc/customer or group hundreds together on one pvc
still?
Charles
> -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben --
> -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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