[MLB-WIRELESS] RG-1000 - Problem with Modem Link

[Fenn Bailey]

OK, well.. bit of a weird problem. I just started using my RG-1000 as a
dialup net gateway a few days ago, and although I've got no real clue what
would cause your particular problem (though it _sounds_ like MTU issues
which theoretically shouldnt' happen on dialup at all), I found that the
java RG-1000/Airport configuration utility (called "Airport configurator"
from memory) allows you to see/set a whole lot more parameters on the
internal modem.

I know that doesn't really answer your question at all, but it might help
you track down the problem (though I can't really see how). The hanging on
the "." really sounds like a bigpond mailserver problem, but why it would
only happen via the RG-1000 has me completely and utterly baffled.

The _only_ thing that springs to mind would be something to do with the
TCP/IP implementation on the RG-1000 working with Bigpond's mailservers.
Using the laptop, the requests would be generated by whatever OS you're
using on your machine. If you're speaking via the gateway, you're being
NAT'd which means that the TCP requests are being generated by the internal
TCP/IP stack native to the RG-1000. No idea really how you'd fix it, but
that's my only real theory.

Good luck tracking it down (and sorry I couldn't help you any more),

	Fenn.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> [mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Grant McHerron
> Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2003 2:18 PM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] RG-1000 - Problem with Modem Link
>
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>
> Heya Gang,
>
> Anyone out there had any experience with the RG-1000? Mine has an ORINOCO
> Silver card in it, is running Firmware v3.95 and it's plugged
> into the LAN
> via its Ethernet port. It's also using the inbuilt modem to
> connect to the
> Internet via a BigPond dial up account (yeah yeah, I know, my
> bad... :) I'm
> using FreeBase 1.0 to manage the unit via the ethernet link.
>
> So, the problem is this - at various times, I go to send emails
> and one or
> more of them will "time out" while trying to send. I'm using a laptop
> running Eudora that's hooked into the cabled LAN (problem also
> occurs when
> using an ORNIOCO Gold card or an ORINOCO Silver card on the laptop). In
> Eudora, I can see it trying to send the email - it talks to
> mail.bigpond.com and tells it where to send it. It then uploads the
> contents of the email before stopping on the "." - this is the single dot
> (.) that gets sent to the mail server to show that all the data has been
> sent. Eudora will just sit there showing that it's sent the "." until,
> finally, it times out.
>
> If I disconnect the laptop from the network and connect directly
> to BigPond
> using the laptop's modem and the same dial-up account, the email sends
> right away.
>
> If I use the RG-1000 dialed up to BigPond but try a different
> mail server,
> the same thing happens.
>
> When I was using a different ISP a while back, I don't recall the problem
> ever occurring.
>
> The problem was occurring back at the end of August/early September using
> BigPond.
>
>
> So, in summary, it appears to occur only when dialed up with BigPond and
> using the RG-1000. Has anyone ever encountered this before (or know where
> to go for answers?) I've tried googling for it but not had much luck :(
>
> Cheers,
>
> Grant
>
>
>
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