Here is someone who can commiserate with you. I have not read the site
for a while and cannot say if there isa solution, but take a look:

http://www.bbarrera.com/networks.htm

You might be better off using a linux box to do the job of the gateway,
you can reset the pppoe parameters to be compatible with the homeconnect
modem.

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:08:39 +1300
"David Lilienthal" <david@softcom.co.nz> wrote:

> This is really a vent.
>
> I have purchased two 3Com products - the HomeConnect Dual Link ADSL
> modem and the OfficeConnect Wireless CableDSL Gateway.
>
> Both of these products work fine is isolation :-) but due to 3Com's
> non-standard implementation of PPPoE (on the modem) the gateway cannot
> communicate with it!!! I had foolishly expected the two 3Com products to
> communicate!
>
> For a laugh I tried the helpdesk which must be located in Malaysia or
> Singapore. It appears to be a team of very disinterested individuals who
> enjoy making you register your product on line (to get the magic
> number). "Jay" then gave me a case number, said something which was
> illegible and then hung-up. I called back and spoke to a different
> operator who, after several suggestions which failed, came back to tell
> me the two products could not communicate because "NZ used PPPoA". I
> explained to him that, yes, we do... that it is infact the modem's job
> to to terminate the PPPoA and present PPPoE and that the gateway, which
> also supports PPPoE should then do its thing but he sounded unconvinced.
>
> I'm waiting for him to call me back.
>
> Bah.
>
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