Re: PPPOE setup problems

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>]

>   This was the output from plog:
> 
> # plog
> Nov 19 09:18:49 gateway pppd[402]: Serial connection established.
> Nov 19 09:18:49 gateway pppd[402]: Using interface ppp0
> Nov 19 09:18:49 gateway pppd[402]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
> 
>   In the docs, it says a succesfull connection should be:
>   ppp0 <--> eth0     (not /dev/pst/0)

Same here when I connect.

>   It doesn't seem to make a difference whether I load the pppoe module or
>   not.

Well, if you're using th pppoe package, you don't need the pppoe module
in the kernel.

I couldn't make it work, so I downloaded the original (upstream) package 
(Roaring Penguin).

>   Also, I'm not sure what I should have defined in my 
>   /etc/networking/interfaces file for eth0 (the interface for the DSL),
>   so I commented out it's entry so it does not come up otherwise. Is
>   this correct?

I was also confused when I was trying to configure pppoe here... Both
approaches sem to work!

Now... You didn't say if your connection did work properly or not. Mine
does, and this is what I get in syslog:

Nov 19 11:19:45 localhost pppd[7363]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Nov 19 11:19:45 localhost pppd[7363]: Using interface ppp0
Nov 19 11:19:45 localhost pppd[7363]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
Nov 19 11:19:45 localhost pppoe[7365]: PADS: Service-Name: ''
Nov 19 11:19:45 localhost pppoe[7365]: PPP session is 47266
Nov 19 11:19:45 localhost pppd[7363]: kernel does not support PPP
filtering
Nov 19 11:19:45 localhost pppd[7363]: local  IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 19 11:19:45 localhost pppd[7363]: remote IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx


J.

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