I'm about to switch from cable to ADSL anytime soon, and I'm trying to prepare the computer for the big change, given that there will be a time gap without internet access and that I can't expect any support whatsoever from the provider's staff. Of course, I can't do any testing...
According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3, it seems that it is enough to emerge net-dialup/rp-pppoe, edit /etc/conf.d/net and edit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. Is this correct? I mean, what about the contents of /etc/ppp/, like /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf? Aren't we supposed to edit at least the latter? The handbook says the contents of /etc/ppp/pap-secrets must be "username" * "password" but /usr/share/doc/rp-pppoe-3.8/pap-secrets.gz says it must be like [EMAIL PROTECTED] * my_password * (i.e., another * and no quotes...) Can someone clarify this point? Another matter that is not clear to me: what about pppoe-start and all other commands mentioned in "man pppoe"? I think that /etc/init.d/net.eth0 works as a wrapper and will invoke the appropriate commands as needed. Is this correct, and can I safely ignore such commands? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
