Getting Back to my question, I have looked at the settings of my HG612 for my ADSL connection.
You can see EoA is set, but my firewall I have set PPPoE to connect, the firewall sends the my isp log in details not the modem.
So how does this work ? is the HG612 a PPPoE-to-PPPoA converting modem ?,
so would that be PPPoEoA ?.
see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol_over_Ethernet scole down to 'PPPoE-to-PPPoA converting modem' .
Why am I interested in this, since updating my firewall some time ago there is a problem that if we get a power cut or I re-boot the firewall it Does Not connect back to the internet and I have to manually reset some of the rules.
(the smoothwall guys on there forum are not helping me with it) .
I re.booted the firewall and got this error message ''
The RED device is not active. Cannot determine the red device type at this time.''
Note .. RED is my connection from the HG612 !.
I am looking for any delays in this connection coming up.
The PPP log =
14:37:10 pppoe Sent PADT
14:37:13 pppd Exit.
14:37:17 pppd pppd 2.4.7 started by root, uid 0
14:37:17 pppd Using interface ppp0
14:37:17 pppd Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
14:37:22 pppoe PPP session is 3956 (0xf74)
14:37:23 pppd CHAP authentication succeeded: CHAP authentication success, unit 1784
14:37:23 pppd CHAP authentication succeeded
14:37:23 pppd local IP address 82.152.x.x
14:37:23 pppd remote IP address 82.153.x.x
14:37:23 pppd primary DNS address 212.104.x.x
14:37:23 pppd secondary DNS address 212.104.x.x
So to me it looks like it is coming up ok.
Any ideas ?.