first, I do understand your frustration. however, none of the developers has the obligation to change the situation, and _maybe_ there is simply not enough manpower/access to some strange combination of haradware and a specific dsl service. if you followed the list in these years you surely will understand this.
On 10/20/06, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The pppoe dial error (userland) "cant assign requsted address" after 4 major OpenBsd releases didnt go away. Noone cared to address the situation and of course the same old answer "diferent isps use diferent pppoe implementations" was the easy answer to leave the question unanswered.
this answer is true nevertheless
The 90% of home office internet conections are have to do with pppoe crapy dsl implementetions at least here in Europe.
I'm in europe too, and connected openbsd routers to a broad variety of dsl services since OpenBSD 3.1.
So from the openbsd 3.4 release I have instaled Openbsd as a router (suggested by me) to different small offices succesfully and despite the Openbsd pppoe risk that these boxes will never see the Internet world.
which could've several reasons, _one_ of them openbsd's pppoe not supporting this special implementation. there are cheap devices out there capable of that, which could be plugged in front of the router. it costs slightly more than whithout, but saves a lot of frustration compared to not being able to connect the router to the internet.
So 3.5 -> 3.6 -> 3.7 -> 3.8 and now I am afraid to tell my clients to update. No matter what usefull things the new releases have if I can not conect them to the Internet the only option is to call microsoft to apply for the licencing program...
if you think thats your solution, off you go!
I am so disappointed with this, as every now and then in these years I read posts in the list, from the newbie trying to install an openbsd box for the first time, as users that are very familiar with openbsd like myself, crying out "the pppoe implementation in openbsd is broken".
why would you come to this conclusion? because you are one of the few which have either a really crappy dsl service or are incapable reading the man pages?
An answer to all these people: IS PPP OPENBSD IMPLEMENTATION BROKEN? YES IT IS NO MATTER WHAT YOU READ IN THE LIST. YES IT IS AND NO ONE CARES. YES YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG IN YOUR CONFIGURATION, THE ERRORS ARE NOT THERE FOR DEBUGGING JUST FOR SEEING THEM.
this is downright wrong. and rude.
On openbsd 3.9 I can conect through pppoe(userland) to my ISP everything works fine but I can not download more than 250KB/s despite that my line is capable of 2000KB/s. In a 3.5 box same configuration same ISP I am capable of 2000KB/s. May I must downgrade?????
so actually it works? have you worked out the differences?
I myself want to ask whats the meaning of an os secure and capable of tasks if I can not conect to an ISP using the way that 90% of Inernet users use in this world.
does it connect or doesn't it?
I needed to write this after 5 years of seeing the community to ignore the needs of its users. We have donated, support it and continue to do so. We have no right to demand things but I think we have the right to alert the community as definitily with this matter something IS DEFINITELY wrong.
this is the best bug report of all times.
I think that the 50% of Openbsd users use pppoe conections and I thing that the 10% of us use for example IPSEC. Despite that IPSEC works far better than establishing a dsl conection and download at proper rates.
for me, it both pppoe and ipsec do work. a well as the other things i use: pf, apache, sendmail, ccd and a bunch of ports
Will be a way to establish a dsl broadband conection from an openbsd gateway to an ISP without errors and problems ever in the future like the 99% of all other OSes (even those that are not deticated to networking as OpenBsd) CAN? OR NOT?
your question is pointless, as openbsd does this already --knitti
