Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-18 Thread Angel Tsankov
Now there is one more thing about the PPPoE connection I would like to setup - I want to have it established at boot time. As far as I know I need to have the following files: 1) /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/pppoe: ONBOOT="yes" SERVICE="pppoe" 2) /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/se

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-15 Thread Angel Tsankov
Try moving mtu and mru statements in /etc/ppp/peers/megalan53 to the very top. If this doesn't help, I give up. Unfortunately, this did not help. Could you explain in a few words why I get this message and where I could find further assistance? You get this harmless message because the defaul

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Try moving mtu and mru statements in /etc/ppp/peers/megalan53 to the very top. If this doesn't help, I give up. Unfortunately, this did not help. Could you explain in a few words why I get this message and where I could find further assistance? You get this harmless mess

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-15 Thread Angel Tsankov
Try moving mtu and mru statements in /etc/ppp/peers/megalan53 to the very top. If this doesn't help, I give up. Unfortunately, this did not help. Could you explain in a few words why I get this message and where I could find further assistance? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/bl

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hmm, eth0 has mtu=1500, I guess this might be the problem: No, that's correct. eth0 must have mtu at least mtu_of_ppp0 + 8. I have also attached the /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/megalan53 files. Try moving mtu and mru statements in /etc/ppp/peers/megalan53 to the

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-14 Thread Angel Tsankov
Angel Tsankov wrote: pppd call pppoe dryrun eth0 This seems to produce some more info. Here it is (the peer file for this PPPoE connection is called megalan53): Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3 pppd options in effect: holdoff 15 # (from /etc

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: pppd call pppoe dryrun eth0 This seems to produce some more info. Here it is (the peer file for this PPPoE connection is called megalan53): Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3 pppd options in effect: holdoff 15 # (from /etc

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-14 Thread Angel Tsankov
You tried the correct options, not sure why they don't work. The correct value for mru and mtu is 1492, BTW. Hmm, I put "mtu 1492" and "mru 1492" in the /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe file, but I still get the "Couldn't increase MTU to 1500" message: I need the output of "pppd call pppoe dryrun" in ord

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: You tried the correct options, not sure why they don't work. The correct value for mru and mtu is 1492, BTW. Hmm, I put "mtu 1492" and "mru 1492" in the /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe file, but I still get the "Couldn't increase MTU to 1500" message: I need the output of "pppd cal

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-13 Thread Angel Tsankov
You tried the correct options, not sure why they don't work. The correct value for mru and mtu is 1492, BTW. Hmm, I put "mtu 1492" and "mru 1492" in the /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe file, but I still get the "Couldn't increase MTU to 1500" message: I need the output of "pppd call pppoe dryrun" in ord

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: You tried the correct options, not sure why they don't work. The correct value for mru and mtu is 1492, BTW. Hmm, I put "mtu 1492" and "mru 1492" in the /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe file, but I still get the "Couldn't increase MTU to 1500" message: I need the output of "pppd cal

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-12 Thread Angel Tsankov
You tried the correct options, not sure why they don't work. The correct value for mru and mtu is 1492, BTW. Hmm, I put "mtu 1492" and "mru 1492" in the /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe file, but I still get the "Couldn't increase MTU to 1500" message: plugin rp-pppoe.so user noauth defaultroute usepeerd

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Is the "Couldn't increase MTU to 1500" message harmless? Yes. If not, how can I avoid it (I already tried adding "mru 1280" and "mtu 1280" to the /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe file)? You tried the correct options, not sure why they don't work. The correct value for mru and mtu

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-11 Thread Angel Tsankov
Now there is one more thing about the PPPoE connection I would like to setup - I want to have it established at boot time. As far as I know I need to have the following files: 1) /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/pppoe: ONBOOT="yes" SERVICE="pppoe" 2) /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/se

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: killproc -p /var/run/ppp-${1}.pid Oops, should be: killproc -p /var/run/ppp-${1}.pid pppd -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Now there is one more thing about the PPPoE connection I would like to setup - I want to have it established at boot time. As far as I know I need to have the following files: 1) /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/pppoe: ONBOOT="yes" SERVICE="pppoe" 2) /etc/sysco

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Angel Tsankov
How can I be sure that I'm using kernel-mode PPPoE in this case? Very easy. 1) "pidof pppoe" should return nothing. 2) "pidof pppd" should return only one process ID, not two IDs. 3) "ls -l /proc/`pidof pppd`/fd" should not reference /dev/pts In the meanwhile I followed the instructions on ht

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: How can I be sure that I'm using kernel-mode PPPoE in this case? Very easy. 1) "pidof pppoe" should return nothing. 2) "pidof pppd" should return only one process ID, not two IDs. 3) "ls -l /proc/`pidof pppd`/fd" should not reference /dev/pts -- Alexander E. Patrakov --

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Angel Tsankov
I have all of them except for CONFIG_N_HDLC. Can someone tell me where I can find this option? I'm building kernel 2.6.11.12. Device Drivers ---> Character devices ---> [*] Non-standard serial port support [*] HDLC line discipline support Thanks, Andy. I followed the instruction in the doc/K

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-09 Thread Andrew Benton
Angel Tsankov wrote: I have all of them except for CONFIG_N_HDLC. Can someone tell me where I can find this option? I'm building kernel 2.6.11.12. Device Drivers ---> Character devices ---> [*] Non-standard serial port support [*] HDLC line discipline support Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.or

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-09 Thread Angel Tsankov
I will probably try these steps later on as the last way out of this problem. My argument in favor of this decision is that being able to make the PPPoE connection work (using RP-PPPoE along with WvDial, WvStreams and OpenSSL) is an indication that the problem has smth to do with configuration of

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: I verified I have CONFIG_PACKET=y in my .config file. If this guess is wrong, you have two roads for debugging this: 1) Mail your kernel .config to me privately, so that I can look at it instead of guessing. Sure, I have attached the compressed kernel configuration file

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: How do I build the PPPoE module into the kernel? CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y (that's under Code maturity level options -> Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers) CONFIG_PPPOE=y (that's under Device drivers -> Network device support -> PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIM

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-08 Thread Angel Tsankov
How do I build the PPPoE module into the kernel? CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y (that's under Code maturity level options -> Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers) CONFIG_PPPOE=y (that's under Device drivers -> Network device support -> PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL)) Yes, I do hav

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Angel Tsankov wrote these words on 06/08/06 06:31 CST: > Aha, and do I need to have any of the RP-PPPoE configuration files for the > rp-pppoe plugin to work, e.g. /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf? Couldn't you answer that on your own by simply trying it? If it works without the config file, then you don't

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-08 Thread Angel Tsankov
CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y Btw, how do you know that I need to build the PPPoE module? In an earlier post you mentioned installing RP-PPPoE, and in your /etc/ppp/options file, you said you had the line plugin rp-pppoe Aha, and do I need to have any of the RP-PPPoE configuration files for

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: How do I build the PPPoE module into the kernel? CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y (that's under Code maturity level options -> Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers) CONFIG_PPPOE=y (that's under Device drivers -> Network device support -> PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIM

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Benton
Angel Tsankov wrote: CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y Btw, how do you know that I need to build the PPPoE module? In an earlier post you mentioned installing RP-PPPoE, and in your /etc/ppp/options file, you said you had the line plugin rp-pppoe Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listin

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Now it does, but when I reboot the system after installing the kernel I get a lot of lines reading: ./hotplug.functions: line 113: /lib/modules/2.6.11.12/modules/isapnpmap: No such file or directory Known bug with /etc/hotplug/pnp.rc. Remove that file, because it only loa

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? No, this means that the module is not built into the kernel and never loaded. You can build

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Now it does, but when I reboot the system after installing the kernel I get a lot of lines reading: ./hotplug.functions: line 113: /lib/modules/2.6.11.12/modules/isapnpmap: No such file or directory Known bug with /etc/hotplug/pnp.rc. Remove that file, because it only loa

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? No, this means that the module is not built into the kernel and never loaded. You can build

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? What does your kernel .config say? It should say CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y Now it does, but when I reboot the

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? What does your kernel .config say? It should say CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y Btw, how do you know that I need to

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Benton
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? What does your kernel .config say? It should say CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y Andy -- http:

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
1. created the /etc/ppp/ip-up and the /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe files; 2. populated the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets files; 3. issued "ip link set eth0 up" (this produced no output on the terminal); 4. issued "pppd call pppoe" and I got: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: 1. created the /etc/ppp/ip-up and the /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe files; 2. populated the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets files; 3. issued "ip link set eth0 up" (this produced no output on the terminal); 4. issued "pppd call pppoe" and I got: Plugin rp-pppoe.so lo

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-06 Thread Angel Tsankov
Then I executed pppd eth0 which produced: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3 Then I ping'ed an Internet host by IP address and got: ping: sendto: Network is unreachable Can someone help me setup a PPPoE connection using only the PPP package?

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Then I executed pppd eth0 which produced: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3 Then I ping'ed an Internet host by IP address and got: ping: sendto: Network is unreachable Can someone help me setup a PPPoE connection using

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-04 Thread Andrew Benton
o: Network is unreachable Can someone help me setup a PPPoE connection using only the PPP package? Read man pppd. And Google. There's tons of stuff out there about networking issues. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.or

PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-04 Thread Angel Tsankov
lp me setup a PPPoE connection using only the PPP package? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page