Hi all First, thanks to Jacques and Eric for their really good documentation. This weekend, I (together with a friend) first set up a Bering box with an ADSL connection. I already set up a Dachstein box with PPPoE some months ago and this did work. I didn't expect any problems because the documentation on PPPoE with Bering is very good.
But it didn't work. After following all steps of the Users Guide, there was no ppp0 interface at all (ip addr) and syslog didn't show any useful information. After 2h of trying, we added the "debug" statement to /etc/ppp/dsl-provider. Then syslog showed a lot of things but still nothing useful (like "error: couldn't authenticate" or "chap failed: wrong password"). After 4h (it was 2 o'clock in the morning, so our brains didn't work as effective as during the day ;)) we had the idea, that probably our ISP REQUIRE A CHAP LOGIN and because the Users Guide and the PPPoE menu entry are only talking about PAP we didn't have this elementary idea. After editing the chap password file with exactly the same information as in the pap file ([userid] * [password]) it worked! I think it would be nice if: a) the Users Guide describes that some provider needs chap and you should enter your login in both files - or/and b) the pppoe package also have a menu entry for the chap file so that users see that there ARE two files. We also noticed that syslog writes: pppd: Error, couldn't inrease MTU to 1500 and we first thought that THIS is the error, but after searching the net we found out that this message is normal in connection with ADSL and isn't a real "error". Information about the ISP: Provider: Solnet Subscription: ADSL Home Notes: Swiss ADSL Provider (www.solnet.ch) so long -- Sandro Minola | LEAF Developer (http://leaf.sourceforge.net) mailto:sandro@;minola.ch | mailto:sminola@;swissonline.ch http://www.minola.ch | http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/sminola - My PGP key is at: http://www.minola.ch/pgp/sminola.asc -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
