Allied Telesis AT-AR236E manual PPPoE Connection Setup

4.4.1.3 PPPoE Connection Setup

PPPoE is also known as RFC 2516. It is a method of encapsulating PPP packets over Ethernet.

PPPor Point-to-Point protocol is a method of establishing a network connection/session between network hosts. It usually provides a mechanism of authenticating users.

To configure the gateway for PPPoE, click on Setup and then click on New Connection. The default PPPoE connection setup is displayed. At the Type field select PPPoE and the PPPoE connection setup page is displayed; figure 6 illustrates a typical PPPoE configuration. Give your PPPoE connection a unique name; the name must not have spaces and cannot begin with numbers. In this case the unique name is called PPPoE1. Select the encapsulation type (LLC or VC); if you are not sure just use the default mode. Select the VPI and VCI settings; your DSL service provider or your ISP will supply these; in this case the DSL service provider is using 0,100. Also select the quality of service (QOS); leave the default value if you are unsure or the ISP did not provide this information.

Following is a description of the different options:

h.Username: The username for the PPPoE access; this is provided by your DSL service provider or your ISP.

i.Password: The password for the PPPoE access; this is provided by your DSL service provider or your ISP.

j.On-Demand: Enables on-demand mode. The connection will disconnect if no activity is detected after the specified idle timeout value.

k.Idle Timeout: Specifies that PPPoE connection should disconnect if the link has no activity detected for n seconds. This field is used in conjunction with the On-Demand feature. To ensure that the link is always active, enter a 0 in this field.

l.Keep Alive: When on-demand option is not enable, this value specifies the time to wait without being connected to your provider before terminating the connection. To ensure that the link is always active, enter a 0 in this field.

m.Set Route: Specify this connection as the default-route.

n.MRU: Maximum Receive Unit the DSL connection can receive. It is a negotiated value that asks the provider to send packets of no more than n bytes. The maximum specified value is 1500 although some DSL/ISP providers require a larger value. The minimum MRU value is 128.

o.Enforce MRU: Check this box if you experience problems accessing the Internet over a PPPoE connection. This feature will force all TCP traffic to conform with PPP MRU by changing TCP Maximum Segment Size to PPP MRU.

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