871 and Static PPPoE

Try to set up a loopback with the IP assigned (say loopback 10) and to put in the dialer section IP unnumbered interface loopback .

Loopback interfaces do accept 32 bits mask.

Let us know!

Alex.

thanks I will give that a shot.

Ken

This looks like the best idea.

Another idea is to lie about the mask - I ran into this a while back when as a troubleshooting aid I had put static IP addresses on a dialer under instruction from the ISP even though it was doing PPP IPCP.

I later did a remote IOS upgrade and -poof router she is dead - since the ip address with /32 mask was not accepted by the new software version. (837, maybe 12.2xyz - 12.3)

The point is that I "fixed" it just by putting in a /30 mask since on a dialer we almost never want to talk to the affected addresses anyway. This installation though was not pppoe but was pppoa.