Sorry for bothering you, I had to go tcpdump the entire network "conversation" between linux and bsd in order to find out that I had miss type my username...
Thank you for your reply Pierre nevertheless :) P.S. This topic can be deleted On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Pierre Emeriaud < petrus.lt+open...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi George, > > > pppoe0: flags=8855<UP,DEBUG,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu > 1492 > > priority: 0 > > dev: em0 state: session > > sid: 0x1d1e PADI retries: 0 PADR retries: 0 time: 00:13:01 > > sppp: phase network authproto pap authname "user" > > groups: pppoe egress > > status: active > > inet 10.0.128.0 --> 83.235.1.86 netmask 0xffffffff > > > > Despite the fact that everything seems to work OK, I can only ping > > 83.235.1.86 and nothing else. I tried pinging 8.8.8.8 or my ISP's DNS > > servers but for some reason this is not possible. > > Are you sure you're not hitting some kind of walled garden? Or is the > private address from your ESX setup? > > If your ISP is indeed OTE, PAP seems fine as per > http://ipv6.ote.gr/?page_id=74&lang=en, but you could try CHAP just in > case. > > -pierre