2006/10/20, Vijay Sankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
FWIW, OpenBSD PPPoE implementation has been more robust for me than
anything else I have used, including Windows, and I have used it since
OpenBSD version 3.0 -- userland initially and later kernel-mode.
I am not sure whether there are better ways to configure this but all I
had to do was create hostname.pppoe0 with the following lines. You may
want to read the documentation more thoroughly.
pppoedev de0
!/sbin/ifconfig de0 up
!/usr/sbin/spppcontrol \$if myauthproto=pap myauthname=username
myauthkey=secret
!/sbin/ifconfig \$if inet 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff
!/sbin/route add default 0.0.0.1
link1 up
Note that things have changed in 4.0. hostname.pppoe0 now looks like this :
!/sbin/ifconfig ne3 up
inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.1 pppoedev ne3 authproto chap \
authname AUTH authkey PASSWORD up
!/sbin/route add default 0.0.0.1
Bruno.
Hope this helps.
On Fri, 2006-20-10 at 04:59 +0200, Chris wrote:
> I write once again for the same old things I was writing
> at the opwnbsd 3.4. If you search the emails to the list are there.
>
> Same old same old.
>
> 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.
>
> The 90% of home office internet conections are have to do with pppoe crapy dsl
> implementetions at least here in Europe.
>
> Despite that I have never found a single windows xp box to not work
> properly with
> these "crapy implementations" no matter to whatever adsl provider
> someone wants to
> conect to, and without the need for any extra drivers to be installed
> concerning these diferrent isps.
>
> 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.
> I just hoped and trusted the community, that someone
> will go and support the first thing that an os must be capable of, to
> conect to the internet
> using an available ISP. I hoped that someone in the community will fix
> the problems so
> will come one day that we can use an openbsd box to conect to the Internet
> without praying or going after that to a doctor for a nervous breakdown.
>
> 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...
>
> THE ONLY THING THAT CHANGES FROM RELEASE TO RELEASE
> IN OPENBSD PPPOE IS THE ERROR MESSAGES AFTER A SUCCESSFUL
> CONECTION IS MADE.
>
> 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".
>
> 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.
>
> 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?????
>
> 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.
>
> I have spend another week trying to resolve another pppoe problem,
> where everything seems to work fine as always, but as always in
> openbsd's pppoe something goes wrong.
>
> Of course if I conect my modem to a wondows xp "stupid insecure pc" or
> to e "Unix based
> "Powerbook" and I experince no such problems.
>
> I called my ISP after the line was installed and complain that my line
> dont work ok and now
> I think I may be have to call them and tell them that I just used a
> stupid os that cant do
> what the most "stupid" oses can DO.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> And I am sure that this mail will be ignored as the 98329389283
> mails in this list that noone answer and you can find in the list
> remaining for ever unanswered.
>
> So just I am Asking kindly again after 5 years.
>
> 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?
>
> Even if the abswer is NO I will be greatefull as many other users to know
> that so we can make our ways out of this OSas there are some thing in
> OS world that some of us cant live without it.
>
> Feel free not to comment.
>
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Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng.
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