On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de>wrote:

> * Daniel Gillen <gillen.dan...@gmail.com> [2013-09-24 17:36]:
> > After some debugging with tcpdump, I found out that from 5.0 to 5.1,
> > OpenBSD introduced vlan priorisation support (IEEE 802.1p) and per
> > default sets the vlan PCP field to the value 3.
> >
> > Unfortunately, my ISP only allows connections when this field is set to
> 0 :(
>
> what? you are kidding, right?
>
> talk to the ISP and tell them they're on drugs. it is perfectly fine
> to ignore the prio field, but requiring a specific value is absolutely
> ridiculous. if they don't fix it, share who it is to warn people.
>
> that said, resetting should hav worked, I have a vague idea where that
> bug might sit; can't check deeper right now tho. oh how much i wish we
> had a bug tracker.one you can."
>


Actually, Orange, the biggest french ISP only accepts PPPoE connections
with PCP field set to 0.
Asking them to change this stupid behavior might be... "difficult".

There is a plethora of xDSL providers here. But with optical fiber, we are
totally screwed. This ISP is the only choice.

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