Airport Extreme no longer able to connect with PPPoE
Came home last night to find the amber light blinking on my Airport Extreme 802.11n. I figured it and the DSL modem needed a power cycle (they often do). However, even after power cycling several times I was still unable to connect to the internet. When I plugged my macbook pro directly into the DSL modem and used a PPPoE connection I have set up for just these times, it connected instantly. I tried upgrading the airport to the most recent firmware, no change. I tried downgrading several times until I got all the way back to the 7.3 release. Still no change. I have the macbook set to display connection time in the menu bar. When trying to use the airport for internet, it keeps saying "Connecting to PPPoE" but then fails. It will keep trying and failing.
I've had this exact setup for years, no problems. Could it be that the base station is dead? I can't understand how that could be since it seems like a software thing? Please help with any thoughts! Thanks.
I've only just got a Vigor 120 ADSL Modem (PPPoA->PPPoE bridge) and had some problems of a similar nature. Part of the problem (something Apple could address if they wanted) is that if you set it to PPPoE for WAN port, it can't talk plain Ethernet on that port so you can't see the ADSL status without unplugging the ethernet which of course resets the ADSL connection. It'd be nice if Apple allowed it to work. The easiest "option" I think they could add would be:
On the PPPoE page, an option "Route private addresses outside PPP" default to off.
Enabling this would mean any routed IP (modem is 192.168.2.1, airport LAN is 192.168.1.1/24) would not be PPP encapsulated if it was a private address (192.168..., 10...) allowing the status page to work and not breaking anything internet wise. I'm sure this wouldn't just be useful to me... Tell you what, Apple, if you make this happen, I'll upgrade to the new 802.11n dual band.
I was getting "Looking for PPPoE host" "Negotiating PPPoE connection" for ages. Some combination of resets and replugging the ethernet cable to the back of the modem did fix it, I haven't worked out exactly what works reliably yet and I don't want to screw up my signal->noise ratio more by doing unnecessary modem resets.
Message was edited by: Faye Pearson
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