Hello all.

Pacific Internet is in the final stages of testing the new L2TP
connection between us and Telstra Wholesale.

L2TP stands for "Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol"

Those who wish to find the technical specification for this protocol can
do so here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2661.txt

L2TP should ensure a more reliable DSL connection.  L2TP allows
Pacific Internet to control many aspects of your PPP session. Previously
this would have been dictated by Telstra. It may allow us to bypass
certain known problems that seem to be associated with Telstra's PPP
session management

Example:
Last night there were dataflow issues with DSL in Melbourne. Some
customers/staff who connected using L2TP were not affected by this
problem.  L2TP may also absolve some MTU issues with some PPPoE clients.

Connection to Pacific Internet's L2TP service is still via a PPP
session. 

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Where your username was: username@aus-dsl.net
Change this to : username@dsl.pacific.net.au
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The password to your service remains the same.

There still may be bugs with the way the L2TP service is implemented,
and this is why we need further testing by our users. We consider this
a BETA service, and it may not work perfectly.  We are welcome to 
change back to using the standard flexstream service at any time.

If you cannot connect, or notice certain problems/bugs/oddities whilst 
connecting please direct feedback to myself (james[at]pacific.net.au).

If you notice improvements in your DSL service, we would love to hear
about these as well.


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Kind Regards

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James Mollison
Technical Support
Pacific Internet Australia
corptech@pacific.net.au
T: 13 36 35 (+22) F: 03 9674 7512

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