Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> writes:
That's interesting.. I'm using exetel as well (at home), with pppoe to a pure-bridge adsl modem.
According to my logs, the last time it reconnected was 10:12am on Nov 10th. (Saturday, so after the changes you mention to their backend)
AIUI exetel emailed customers who would be affected ("your upstream IP will change on $date"), though they didn't mention the symptoms I encountered, and the change didn't occur until about a week after they said it would.
I didn't even notice, so it seems this didn't effect all clients. This is on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, so maybe something changed in pppd? Nov 10 10:12:52 penfold pppd[1588]: local IP address 58.96.97.xxx Nov 10 10:12:52 penfold pppd[1588]: remote IP address 58.96.2.210
Those IPs look like my pre-transition ones, so I'd say they just haven't wibbled your service yet. (I don't know if they plan to wibble all of them, or if it was a single batch, or what.)