Topic: Getting pppoe to work ...

[Thomas]

Hi Folks,

first, thanks for that really good distribution with that less of space needed (200 MB for me) and such well preconfigured tools.

I HAD some problems getting pppoe to work and wanted to give some suggestions.

before I had a Corel Linux installed just because it was the only distribution that I had here on ONE CD .
It worked well with ADSL and RP-PPPOE  1 GB just for a gateway?
So I took a look at some other distributions and found yours.
I made a second installation so that I could play a litte thing with it.

As I installed PPPOE from your site and followed the hints my adsl-connection didn't want to work.
So I copied the whole /etc/ppp from my old distribution to the your distribution ... and WOW it worked from scratch.
The username and password were correct but I believe the options-file could interfere 'cause the one from my old distribution was empty ... .
I don't know for sure what the problem was 'cause it works now also if I restart it and I don't want to crash a good running system .

Again, thanks for that nice thing of software.

Thomas

[Charlie Brady]

Thomas wrote:

> As I installed PPPOE from your site and followed the hints my
> adsl-connection didn't want to work. So I copied the whole
> /etc/ppp from my old distribution to the your distribution ...
> and WOW it worked from scratch. The username and password were
> correct but I believe the options-file could interfere 'cause
> the one from my old distribution was empty ... .

Unfortunately your information doesn't help us to avoid the problem you faced, since we don't know what you changed and what fixed your problem.

You should also be aware that your system is in a fragile state - the e-smith manager might regenerate the PPP options file some time in the future when you change some setting or other via the web interface. See the documenation at http://www.e-smith.org/ for details about the e-smith templated configuration system.

We'd are very interested in having the e-smith server work flawlessly with all PPPoE systems, but obviously can't test against every system.  If you are prepared to help us solve your problem, please send details of your system to devinfo@lists.e-smith.org.

Regards

Charlie

[Thomas]

it was the pap-secrets where you stored the username and password.
my username contains @ and - so that the username NEEDS to be put between "" ... that was the only thing that needs to be changed.

Perhaps you should put it in the templates, it does not make any harm but some usernames need this done.

Thanks
      Thomas

[Charlie Brady]

Thomas wrote:

> it was the pap-secrets where you stored the username and
> password. my username contains @ and - so that the username
> NEEDS to be put between "" ... that was the only
> thing that needs to be changed.

Thanks for taking the time to track that down. We'll verify that change then include it in the next release.

Regards

Charlie