Recent content by Aaron Ezekiel

I should have written this long ago when I resolved my Centurylink/ActionTec C1000A problem: There is a bug in the CenturyLink-branded ActionTec C1000A (maybe in all ActionTec C1000A versions?) which I found mentioned in an obscure posting after much searching. The ActionTec must be off and...

Odd! I set it to transparent bridging and rebooted. It appears to be in bridging mode, but you can't really tell much, since you can't reach it's web interface, except to reset back to router mode and reboot. Any ideas what I might check there? Firewall? I have one port forward: send...

Sorry, after I posted on that old thread, I was afraid it was too old and would never get seen! Won't do it again. I'll pick up discussion over there.

One guy suggested using code from a couple of the forks from the Merlin code. I'm uncomfortable with that for several reasons too long to discuss here. I'm fairly sophisticated at networking, having been in a big research university computing center as a systems analyst for several years...

I'm having problems getting the WAN side of my ASUS RT-AC66U running Merlin 380.59 to authenticate with CneturyLinl VDSL over an ActionTec C1000a DSL modem in bridged mode. II'm trying to switch to bridging-only mode so I don't effectively have 2 routers in front of my home LAN. I know I have...

I'm having similar problem with an ActionTec C1000a DSL modem I'm trying to switch to bridging-only mode and use the WAN side of my Asus RT-AC66U running Merlin 380.59. I know I have the correct PPPOE username and password, but it will not connect and give me a working Internet connection. And...

I should have included some syslog: Jun 18 16:09:19 pppd[7720]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery Jun 18 16:09:19 pppd[7720]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Jun 18 16:09:19 pppd[7720]: Terminating on signal 15 Jun 18 16:09:19 pppd[7720]: Exit. Jun 18 16:09:19 kernel: Attempt to kill tasklet from interrupt...

I'm having similar problem with an ActionTec C1000a DSL modem I'm trying to switch to bridging-only mode and use the WAN side of my Asus RT-AC66U running Merlin 380.59. I know I have the correct PPPOE username and password, but it will not connect and give me a working Internet connection...