Hi guys
I’ve noticed at least one other post like this but not definite answers or suggestions so I thought to revive the topic.
I live in South Africa and our main (almost only) telecoms company prevents us from using static IPs directly on our routers so the ISPs have devised a way (albeit crappy at best) to assign static IPs to clients. We do this by connecting our routers to an L2TP tunnel over which the static IP may be used. Unfortunately the configuration required by this crappy-at-best setup does not use IPSec for encryption and connection security but rather require that we use tunnel authentication with a shared secret that really is shared since it’s published on the internet.
There are only a hand full of routers on the market that will actually run this configuration. In-fact, I couldn’t even get windows to connect with that configuration.
I’ll post the connection parameters below.
Can Mikrotik please look in to adding the necessary functionality to RouterOS to support these parameters? Alternatively, can someone please advise me/us on how to achieve a connection with these parameters if at all possible. I’ve read almost every Wiki article and forum post I could find and I’ve spent at least 3 days already trying to get this working. Unfortunately the upstream providers have determined in 2009 already that this is going to be the way they operate, end of story. We do not seem to have a say in it.
Here’s the parameters:
Connection Type → Remote Access
Type → Dial Out
Sever IP → 196.30.121.50
Username → Your DSL Username
Password → Your DSL Password
Authentication Type → PAP
Tunnel Authentication → Yes
Secret → Well, that’s supposed to be a secret now isn’t it? (h3lp)
Active as Default Route → Yes
IPSec → No
- Afrihost officially supports the Billion BiPAC 7402GX
It doesn’t really say whether we need to self configure the IP address or if they’ll assign it automatically.
Please, any help will be much appreciated and I’ll try and return the favor some day. 