problem with PPPoE to german T-DSL/ISP

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hello,

i am trying to use the mikrotik router to connect to german t-dsl-line (german telekom and strato) but cant get it to work.

both providers use long usernames with special characters e.g.

STRATO/001234XYZ0000012345678%STRATODSL

i configured a pppoe-out interface on an ethernet-port connected to an standard ethernet dsl-modem (teledat lan 430). on the pppoe-out interface i configured username and password and bound the pppoe-out interface to the ethernet-port connected to the modem.

the pppoe dials out, got connection to the access-concentrator (status shows name and MAC-address) but disconnects then, probably due to an authentication failure. i can see short traffic peeks (tx and rx) on the ethernet-port to the modem, too.

is there a way to see the pppoe handshaking and error messages?

is anyone running a mikrotik router on a t-dsl line/isp?

(i tested the line and user data with another router, everything is working)

thanks in advance

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meanwhile i wrote to mikrotik support and they were very helpful, but the problem could not be solved yet.

i did some further tests: set up an mikrotik router os (2.8.15) based PPPoE-server and tried to log in from a unix machine (macos x) using built-in PPPoE-client.

mt config, ppp users 1 and 2 are similar, besides the username:

/ppp secret print detail

1 name=“sisch3/test0123456789test%bla” service=pppoe caller-id=“”
password=“test” profile=default local-address=192.168.255.1
remote-address=192.168.255.161 routes=“” limit-bytes-in=0
limit-bytes-out=0

2 name=“sisch3/test%bla” service=pppoe caller-id=“” password=“test”
profile=default local-address=192.168.255.1
remote-address=192.168.255.162 routes=“” limit-bytes-in=0
limit-bytes-out=0

user 1 can not log in with an authentication failure, but user 2 can!
so my question: could it possibly be, that the username-string is just too short, and might this be the same with the PPPoE-client username-string too?

the special characters “/” and “%” seemed to be working:-)

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I am interested in any solutions too. I recently moved to Germany and am in the process of getting my Mikrotik box up and running. I guess one option would be to have a linksys or dlink router handle the pppoe and forward all ports to the Mikrotik. I would prefer not to go this way though.

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This is fixed in the next version. Should be out in a day or two.

John

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hello,

can’t await this :wink:

(i got a test package from support and everything is now working! :slight_smile:


I guess one option would be to have a linksys or dlink router handle the pppoe and forward all ports to the Mikrotik. I would prefer not to go this way though

we did this to of course, but it was much to complicated (to expensive and we have poor pppoe-results using the small linksys). another way would be using a dsl-modem with build-in pppoe (e.g. LG), but like to use the MT itself.