On Saturday 13 May 2006 15:59, fei huang wrote: > I've configued the rp-pppoe following the updated instruction in > Gentoo Handbook, and my ADSL modem can be brought up at start up , > however, the pppoe-status always returns message says that the PID > file could not be found (which is definity wrong!). my network was > working of course.. so. I found this issue was caused by the > $PIDFILE which is defined in the /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf and read by > pppoe-status script. but the comment right above that line says: > > # NB: Gentoo overrides PIDFILE when pppoe-start is run from the > # networking scripts. This setting has no effect in that case. > > # below is the original definition > #PIDFILE="/var/run/$CF_BASE-pppoe.pid" > > # Still wrong after I comment out the line above, so I have to change > like this: > PIDFILE="/var/run/rp-pppoe-eth0.pid" > > It works now though, I wonder if this is a small bug, i.e. the > $PIDFILE has never been defined except in the pppoe.conf, > and unfortunately, the only definition is not correct..
Umm, the instructions in the Handbook point to the method where Gentoo uses the kernel based pppoe rather than rp-pppoe. So rp-pppoe is never active I think. I could be wrong. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------
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