Angel Tsankov wrote:
I managed to setup a connection using RP-PPPoE after enabling PPP in the kernel and installing RP-PPPoE, WvStreams, WvDial and OpenSSL. However, I'd rather not install all 4 packages when a single one would do.
OpenSSL is useful for other things to link to, but I agree about the others.
/etc/ppp/pppoe-server-options:
Does pppd read /etc/ppp/pppoe-server-options?
require-pap login lcp-echo-interval 10 lcp-echo-failure 2
I would normally put these sort of options in a file in /etc/ppp/peers and then run pppd with the option to call the name of the file. So if you put the options in /etc/ppp/peers/ISP you would launch pppd with
pppd call ISP
Besides, I setup /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf according to the instructions I received from my ISP.
Yes, but does pppd read /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf? In my experience it reads the name of the file in /etc/ppp/peers that you point it towards, it reads /etc/ppp/options, if your ISP uses pap authentication it reads /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and if your ISP uses chap authentication it reads /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
In fact, I just copied the file when PPPoE was setup with RP-PPPoE. There was no /etc/resolv.conf in the case with RP-PPPoE, so I decided not to create one in the case with PPP only.
If you launch pppd with the option usepeerdns it will create the file /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
If you want, you can make a symbolic link pointing at it from /etc ln -s ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
Then I executed pppd eth0 which produced: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3
It looks to me like this launches pppd to use the interface /dev/eth0 with just the options in /etc/ppp/options
Then I ping'ed an Internet host by IP address and got: ping: sendto: Network is unreachable Can someone help me setup a PPPoE connection using only the PPP package?
Read man pppd. And Google. There's tons of stuff out there about networking issues.
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