Whilst waiting for my BeBox to arrive, I wanted to make use of the Thomson Speedtouch 516 that I bought a few years ago and has sat unused since then. Documentation on accomplishing this is unfortunately lacking from Be, and there is little in the way of informatoin on the members-only Be forum or the Be usergroup.
However, it can be done.
Configuring the Speedtouch is a real pain for Be, as the Speedtouch only supports PPPoA or PPPoE as standard. However, Be use RFC 1483 bridging (aka EthoA). The 516 can support RFC 1483 bridging, but you need to upload a template to add the configuration options to the Speedtouch’s web interface. That, or figure ou the magic CLI runes which can be entered over telnet, but that is left as an excercise to the reader.
Thankfully, the nice people at another LLU ISP, ADSL24, have provided a template which works perfectly with the Speedtouch and Be.
Just follow the instructions here to download the template, upload it to the Speedtouch, enter your Be IP, netmask and gateway, and away you sh
ould go :)