Hi, Today I went to a friend's house to install FreeBSD on his workstation, trying to make him change to open source software. I am a cable user and he has ADSL. I had never configured ADSL on FreeBSD, nor USB connections to the net. So I did some pre-reading on the handbook and some tutorials..
I took an old 3GB hdd I had with me. Since he only has one computer, I had to constantly change the hard disks to boot windows & FreeBSD (just installed on the 3G disk). I downloaded alcatel's firmware, the pppoa port, compiled bridging support on the kernel, tap device.. I had never touched ppp even, my times on dialup were on windows 95. After 6 hours lost (I though the connection was PPPoA.. wrong), I called the ISP techy support and they told me the protocol used is PPPoE. Right. So I did a quick reconfigure on the ppp.conf file. Without pap or chap (which, from what I understood, is the authentication scheme) it will say my friend's login is already in use. I was really happy to see that, finally after almost 7.30 hours a response from the server! (up until then I was being promptly disconnected). So I enabled pap&chap, and expecting an established connection to the net.. this is what I get: Too many LCP REQs sent - abandoning negotiation Aug 28 19:54:51 kittenizer ppp[627]: tun0: Phase: deflink: Too many LCP REQs sent - abandoning negotiation Ok.. There I unplugged the freebsd disk, plugged his winxp disk, did a bit googling for the 20th time or so.. Few results came up. I tried lowering MTU& MRU to 1492, disabling extra options, set cd 5 , among others. I don't have the ppp.conf file here, but it only had the authkey, authname, login, dial, PPPoE:tag0, all the essentials from a working config I found on the net from a guy who could get the connection working on this ISP, although I digged most of the options by the time I found that thread. All I know is LCP stands for line control protocol. The only idea I had (after leaving his house) was trying to disable LQR, which, from what I understood, is somehow related to LCP. Another possibility is the service tag missing? I understand the format is PPPoE:tag0:service_tag_here , but I have no idea of what the service tag is. Would a missing stag cause the LCP error ? Finally, there was someone saying the old user-land ppp version would work whilst the new one caused this same problem to him. I will be going to his home next week again, hopefully with some answers. Shame I don't have a test connection, as I stated on the beginning of this mail I run on cable (dhclient rl0 is WAY EASIER :D). Please excuse me if I missed something obvious on the configuration, but as I said I'm completely new to both PPP & ADSL. Many thanks in advance! _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
