PPPoE connection with Netgear FR114P firewall

[retep]

I have two XP machines that connect to a netgear FR114P
firewall/router that connect to the SBC global DSL modem. I set up
machine 'A' with the network bridge and PPPoE connection to the
router. For machine 'B', I just set it up to receive its IP address.
Everything worked just fine for a long time until recently.

Unfortunately, few days ago, machine 'A' start to experience problems.
It would connect to the internet for about 1 minute after I log in and
then suddenly stops. It also cannot connect to the router via the
router's ip address. The PPPoE connection is also disconnected and I
can't manually connect it(Produce an Error 678, the remote computer is
not responding). However, I can ping the local IP address of the
router and I can even ping the external IP address of the router.
However, machine 'B' still would work with the internet and can
connect to the router through its local address(192.168.0.1, as
usual). Please advice.

 

[Buck Rogers]

I have two XP machines that connect to a netgear FR114P
firewall/router that connect to the SBC global DSL modem. I set up
machine 'A' with the network bridge and PPPoE connection to the
router. For machine 'B', I just set it up to receive its IP address.
Everything worked just fine for a long time until recently.

Unfortunately, few days ago, machine 'A' start to experience problems.
It would connect to the internet for about 1 minute after I log in and
then suddenly stops. It also cannot connect to the router via the
router's ip address. The PPPoE connection is also disconnected and I
can't manually connect it(Produce an Error 678, the remote computer is
not responding). However, I can ping the local IP address of the
router and I can even ping the external IP address of the router.
However, machine 'B' still would work with the internet and can
connect to the router through its local address(192.168.0.1, as
usual). Please advice.

Hello,

I'm a little confused as to why you used a network bridge on Machine
A? I have a FM114P with 3 computers connected.....2 by Ethernet cable
and one wireless......2 machines have XP Pro and one (wireless) has
Win98SE. All have their IP addresses assigned by the router and all
connect through the router to my cable modem with no problem. I don't
have a network bridge setup and that is what causes my question in
your case.

I have a friend who has DSL and recently couldn't connect to the
Internet through his router. When I saw he was using a network bridge
on one machine, I disabled it and rebooted. All worked great after
that.

Don't know if this helps your case......I would still like to have
your rationale for the "'bridge", if only for further knowledge on my
part.

Regards

Buck

 

[retep]

Hello,

I'm a little confused as to why you used a network bridge on Machine
A? I have a FM114P with 3 computers connected.....2 by Ethernet cable
and one wireless......2 machines have XP Pro and one (wireless) has
Win98SE. All have their IP addresses assigned by the router and all
connect through the router to my cable modem with no problem. I don't
have a network bridge setup and that is what causes my question in
your case.

I have a friend who has DSL and recently couldn't connect to the
Internet through his router. When I saw he was using a network bridge
on one machine, I disabled it and rebooted. All worked great after
that.

Don't know if this helps your case......I would still like to have
your rationale for the "'bridge", if only for further knowledge on my
part.

Regards

Buck

I tried what you suggested by removed the network bridge earlier.
However, it still doesn't solve the problem. As a matter in fact, I
regress since now I can't access the router from the other computer
that's working. After I restore the network bridge, I can access the
router via http with the other computer. As for the computer that has
the problem, nothing changes.

I begin to suspect that the problem is cause by the fact that I can't
do a connection with PPPoE miniport. I don't know why it won't make
the connection.