Sorry, replied to the wrong address :)

>Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 11:31:58 +1300
>To: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
>From: Steve Phillips <steve@focb.iconz.co.nz>
>Subject: RE: PPPoSSH Problems
>
>At 12:33 6/01/2001, you wrote:
>>%-> Personally, while I would find micro-outages annoying (to say
>>%-> the least!), I
>>%-> wouldn't expect them to break connections. Has anyone done a
>>%-> comparative
>>%-> study using Telecoms ADSL service to compare "normal" TCP-based services
>>%-> with tunnels between the same pair of machines?
>>
>>Well, Asia Off^H^HNLine seems to be working on providing VPNs across
>>Jetstream, using Cisco routers. Steve?
>
>Yep, we did start using the 827 as a way to provide a VPN over DSL,
>however we ran into a problem whereby the route for the DSL IP simply
>vanished periodically, the interface on the router wasn't actually going
>down - but our routers suddenly stopped receiving the route from telecoms
>CAR (Customer Access Router) - after trying to pinpoint this problem and
>provide some sort of fault report to telecom we gave up as these outages
>were in the 1-2 min range and notoriously difficult to trace as the routes
>would appear again by the time we had started to do any diagnostic work.
>
>In the end we switched the customer over to ISDN centrix which - while
>slower, gave a far more stable VPN.
>
>I Have noticed the same problems with my home connection and the VPN I
>make to one of our routers at work to tunnel my IP range to home, however
>for me it was never that much of an issue as I don't have a business that
>relies on the fact that my link is up 24/7.
>
>--
>Steve.

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Received on Mon Jan 8 11:33:29 2001