Re: PPPoe question

[Sascha Luck <sascha@c4inet.net>]

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 23:51, Kirk Ismay wrote:
> I am trying to get pppoe to work with a 'stripped' version of OpenBSD 3.3
> (starting from Chris Cappuccio's flashdist) running on a Soekris Net4501.
> I've added /usr/sbin/ppp* to the flashdist.
> I've used ldd to ensure all necessary libraries for ppp were copied over,
> but am wondering if pppoe requires any other programs to be installed?
> I've never configured pppoe on anything before, but I have used 'regular'
> ppp under OpenBSD.
> I've had a look at the man pages, faq's and google, and it seems like I've
> configured everything correctly. If anyone has some advice on how to
> trouble shoot this, it will be appreciated.  ADSL connection is known to
> work using Linksys broadband gateway using pppoe.
> In any case, its not working. If I type 'ppp pppoe', it hangs after
> displaying:
> ppp pppoe
> Working in interactive mode


Make sure the ethernet interface used for encapsulation is ifconfig'd UP. This 
has got me a couple of times.

rgds,
Sascha