Telkom Unshaped Address Range

[trickle]

Please could someone clear up for me what address range Telkom unshaped accounts should be on. We have had an unshaped account for 3 months now and have had a 165.165.x.x address. Unshaped latency has been getting progessively worse, particularly the last 3 weeks.

I saw in an older post that the 165.165.x.x range is actually a shaped address space?? Any ideas would be appreciated.

-Trickle

 

[Tinuva]

There is actually different ip ranges for capped/uncapped/shaped ect on saix/telkom's adsl accounts.

I dont know all, as if differ for different regions as well. But on my exchange

165.165.8.x = unshaped
165.165.54-191.x = capped
165.165.192-209.x = uncapped for the time being

I certainly noticed those whilst connecting with different accounts ect. The gateway ips are also different

165.165.8.x -> 165.165.8.1
165.165.54-191.x -> 165.165.52.1 (or something like that)
165.165.192-209.x -> 165.165.192.1

Now that clarify how they are able to route shaped/unshaped/capped/uncapped traffic differently...they gateways have different connections to local/internation ect (although in theory this is just a limited software pipe)

 

[andres101]

would be great if there was a software bug in their PPP stack that could allow you to choose your own IP... Any ideas what they are using so that I can start looking for that bug

 

[bboy]

shhhh andreas, don't let it out!

 

[Tinuva]

there is no such bug. However, you can try to force a certain ip in the range your account is allowed to use. IE. If you are capped, you can specify a capped ip, and if its free you will get it. I did this once to test, however you cannot choose a uncapped ip while you are capped...

 

[rellik]

I have tried this & unfortunately must confirm. Just to ask though:
If you log on with a username, does that put you on a certain gateway, wich then dynamically gives u an IP?
Wich will explain why u can change your ip for that range, cause u are on that gateway.
Now, if i can only change my gateway....

 

[Tinuva]

That is correct, however you cannot set your gateway, that gets assigned to you on connect. It basically sets your gateway. However it still forces you into a certain ip range. When you choose an ip, the PPPoE server on the other end check if you are allowed that ip, and if yes, it then checks if its available for use. So no work around.