Re: pppoe

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:18:50AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote:
:Anyone here ever get pppoe working?  I have a base system installed
:right now and need to get the packages.  I don't even have a compiler
:or anything.  I installed the compact image so it would have support
:for my 3Com NIC, which it does.  ifconfig shows eth0.  I have
:Mindspring for DSL and they have pppoe for Linux at their site. It
:says for Red Hat Linux, but the distribution shouldn't matter I would
:think.  I downloaded it, but can't get it to work.  I got it to the
:point that I type 'start-pppoe' and just get another prompt, but
:nothing has happened.  I know this is not much to go on, but any
:pointers would help.

yes it can work...

you'll need to hack the config files some, though which ones depends
on how Mindspring is handling authentication and how the package they
provide is configure.

look at pap-secrets, chap-secrets, options (and if it exists
options,pppoe) under /etc/ppp/.  The -secrets files should contain
username password stuff, in the format:

<username> * "<password>"

the options file(s) you probably won't have to touch, but you can turn
on verbose logging there for debuging purposes.

check /var/log/{ppp.log,syslog,messages} to see what pppd has to say.
Yes pppd, it does the "real work" start-pppoe calls a bunch of stuff
that does the right magic to encapsulate the ppp stuff then hands off
to plain old pppd.  

-Jon