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[Charles Steinkuehler]

> I've tried the above with and without quotes.  Either combination
yields
> the following from syslog:
>
> Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/pppoe.so loaded
> PPPoE Plugin Initialized
> pppd started by root, uid 0
> Sending PADI
>
> And then just sits there...
>
> Depending on when I ifdown ppp0, syslog reports the following:
>
> invalid packet Ether addr:14:89:fa:bf:6c:6f
> PPPoE hdr: ver=0xf type=0x9 code=0xf1 sid=0x4aeb length=0x5489
(UNKNOWN)
> PPPoE tag: type=fabf length=6c6f  (UNKNOWN) unrecognized data
> Failed to negotiate PPPoW connection: 4 Interrupted system call
>
> If I don't ifdown ppp0, it just sits at "Sending PADI" indefinitely.
>
> Any thoughts?

I'd say the odds are on something mis-configured in your PPP or PPPoE
setup.  I had virtually no luck with PPPoE until I setup a test PPPoE
network, and could look at the logs on *BOTH* sides of the connection.
Once I got the kinks out of my test configuration, linking up with an
actual provider went smoothly.

It may help to connect a full-blown disto to your PPPoE link (or bum
some config files off someone on-list with a linux box hooked to SWBT
PPPoE DSL), and compare the configuation with what you're setting up in
LEAF.

One thing working with a thin disto like LEAF is you're forced to learn
how to make everything run at a very low-level.  This can be a good
thing or a bad thing, depending on your perspective.  I learned *WAY*
more about software RAID by building a LEAF based web-server sporting a
SCSI RAID-1 than by installing RedHat and using the GUI installer to
build mirrored partitions...in fact, I learned enough playing with RAID
on LEAF that I now trust it for production servers, and know I can fix
things if I ever loose a drive.

Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net