Re: netconsole over pppoe

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On 4/21/13, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> jidanni@jidanni.org a écrit :
>> however I am on PPPOE over ADSL so
>>
>> # netstat -rn #just says
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
>> Iface
>> 0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U         0 0          0
>> ppp0
>> 168.95.98.254   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0
>> ppp0
>> 192.168.44.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0
>> eth0
>
> >From Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt in the kernel source tree :
> "some fundamental limitations will remain: only IP networks, UDP packets
> and *ethernet devices* are supported."
>
> A PPP or PPPoE interface is not an ethernet device, so unless the
> documentation is outdated, you cannot use ppp0. If you setup netconsole
> to send packets through eth0 to the PPPoE access concentrator MAC
> address, it is very unlikely they they will reach the remote server.

So tun/tap? vtun (or openvpn if you want encryption, or just a modern
ssh with local tun/tap support), or perhaps etherpuppet?