Obtaining Pertinent Router-ISP Information

[cvel]

Before I start, I'd like to say thanks (again) to those who answered my previous inquiry.

I am now an owner of a Ascend Pipeline 50, and am in the process of getting all the required information to connect to my ISP. I am missing a couple pieces of information, however, and am wondering if there is a simple way to get it. I'm looking for the IP Address of the router I would be dialing into and the DNS IP Addresses. The obvious answer is to contact my ISP (in this case Core.com), but I have been unable to retrieve this information because my email's go unanswered, and the technical help people at Core have been unhelpful. Possibly a simple command--use tracert or dns?

Also, on an unrelated topic: Is there a specific way to allocate a certain percentage of bandwidth (i.e., 30% for one cpu, 70% for the other cpu) through the Ascent Pipeline 50 or ancillary software?

Thanks,

cvel.

 

[Damaged]

Try this link from earthlink: Ascend Setup

Those instructions should cover the basics of your type of setup, though I don't know for sure even though I know work for Core.com. You are going to need to know their dialup numbers and dns though. That information should be available here: CoreComm Support

Why wouldn't I know? First, I'm in network engineering, I don't deal with dial up end users directly. Second, we were just recently purchased and my area covers former Voyager.net in Wisconsin and Illinois. I neither setup not maintain any Core equipment...yet. 🙂

By CPU you mean hosts (i.e. different machines)?

 

[cvel]

Excellent! Both sources were valuable, and through those two and one other I snagged the information I was missing.

DNS:
208.132.72.2
208.133.80.8

Router:
100.100.100.100
OR
200.200.200.200

The Core.com site didn't have any numbers for the Router IP Address, but I believe one of these might work...

Yes, by CPU I mean host machines. Any ideas?

Thanks!

cvel.

 

[barebottoms]

I can troubleshoot these things in my sleep. 🙂
Which rev of code are you on?
You don't need the IP address of the RAS you're dialing. That type of configuration is for Interface Based routing. Ascends prefer Classless routing.

If you're using NAT, the Pipe sends 0.0.0.0's as their IP address, which the RAS will respond with all the necessary information to configure the Pipe (provided that the ISP did put the stuff in their RADIUS profile).

How do I know? I was a test engineer for them. 🙂

If you need step by step instructions on this, I can do that for you... but I'm not near a pipe right now..

No, you can not allocate bandwidth per user with the Pipe. IPv4 just did not have QoS built into the protocol. I think you can get creative in applying QoS, but you'll need some very expensive equipment (like an Altiqa).

One method might be to reghack the second cpu to use very small packets (MTU hack), but then you'll end up overloading the routers for Frag and Reassembly.

For DNS you do not have to use your ISP's. Just faster if you keep it on your own network. Nothing stops you from using other peoples DNS servers.

 

[cvel]

Well, I'm back. I had hoped I could leave you all alone for awhile, but it seems I am always running into some snag that I can't negotiate by myself. It's great that you all are here.

As far as which revision of code I am running, the router is using 6.0.0.

I have two problems as of late:

1) I can't save any changes that I may make under 'Configure' or 'Ethernet->Connections->core' and as a result get this error:

Message #162
Missing Password:
Password field(s)
may not be blank

- I cannot recall setting or deleting any password that would cause such an error. I checked the Documentation CD for information on errors, but for some reason they weren't documented.

2) I'm trying to run a WarFTP Daemon but can't connect to it outside my network. Information follows:

Router IP=192.168.100.3
Host=192.168.100.6

Here are my NAT settings:

Ethernet->NAT->20-A01 NAT->
Routing=Yes
Profile=core
FR address=0.0.0.0
LAN=Single IP addr
Static Mappings...
Def Server=0.0.0.0
Reuse last addr=No
Reuse addr timeout=N/A

Ethernet->NAT->20-A01 NAT->Static Mappings->Static Map 01
Valid=Yes
Dst Port #=21
Protocol=TCP
Loc Port #=21
Loc Adrs=192.168.100.6

- I appreciate whatever information you may have that could solve these problems. If there are settings that I have not included, and that would help troubleshoot, please ask and I'll supply them immediately.

Thanks,

cvel.

 

[Damaged]

To set the password go to System->Security, then just pick the default profile name or if you've named it something then that one and set the password there.