Could anyone now using the latest 2.2.17 kernel and PPPoE confirm that it works for them on an ADSL connection? I've been unsuccessful in getting this combination to work, and I wonder if it's some config I'm botching (seems most likely) or if something fundamentally doesn't work/is broken.
Here's the situation: On a potato firewall box, I've been successfully running a *2.2.15* kernel with the stock pppoe from the potato archive (which is a v 1.0-1 Roaring Penguin pppoe driver). However, when I compile a new custom *2.2.17* kernel, what happens is pretty bizarre. I can get a PPPoE connection with my ISP (PacBell), but after a certain number of packets (usually about one web page worth), the connection dies. Thinking that the problem was the old version of PPPoE, I just installed the latest version (2.3) from Roaring Penguin (built from the upstream source into a .deb). This continues to give me a functional, durable Internet connection with the 2.2.15 kernel, but also continues to roll over and die when I boot to the 2.2.17 kernel. I've rechecked several times -- from the IPMasquerade-HOWTO -- the proper kernel compilation configs, so I'm pretty confident of my kernel. So, has anyone seen problems like this? TIA! Stan
