dslreports logo

This is a little more complicated than finding your SBCIS redback, but generally far more important when it comes to tracing down traffic issues. The methods differ depending on the hardware/software that's negotiating your PPPoE session. Some modems or software won't give you the answer, but all of the recent, and some of the older devices will, if you know where to look, and what to look for. It will look like a bunch of digits, followed by a dash, followed by an abbreviated city name and some numbers and letters that follow. 62031090089539-milwwi7001w or 9A018120100122-chcgilhq14w are examples.

Siemens Speedstream 4100/5100b

1. Click on »192.168.0.1/techreadout.htm
2. Scroll to Line item 292, PPP Access Concentrator
3. The entry there contains your ASI Redback information.

Siemens Efficient Speedstream 5861 and 5930

Via a browser:
Point your browser to »192.168.254.254/tools/diag.html (replace 192.168.254.254 with your gateway's LAN address if you've changed the default) and select PPPoE session from the diagnostics window. Click Execute. The result for Access Concentrator will contain your ASI Redback.

Any 2Wire Product
Click on Clicking on »homeportal and then on the "pppoe0" link that you'll see about fifth from the bottom in the nested list. The line that starts with PPPoE current AC: will contain your ASI Redback.

More to come on Linux, BSD, Cayman 3220H, 3546 and 3346 products.

Contributions to this entry by lev See Profile, Mtneeer, DyerUser See Profile, ArgMeMatey See Profile, and trader22 See Profile.


Expand got feedback?

by RadioDoc See Profile edited by lev See Profile
last modified: 2006-05-14 00:42:38