[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-26 Thread Sven Köhler
Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? which settings? well, man pppd should show you all the funny pppd options. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-26 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 18:40, Sven Köhler wrote: Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? which settings? well, man pppd should show you all the funny pppd options. Okies, thanks :) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-24 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Sunday 23 April 2006 22:45, Sven Köhler wrote: (1) Why rp-pppoe is deprecated? ppp included the pppoe-plugin known from rp-pppoe. the pppoe-plugin uses the kernel-mode PPPoE. There is no need for rp-pppoe anymore, because ppp offers everything needed. Aah I see! Thanks for correcting me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Chen Yufei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First thanks! As Mrugesh mentioned rp-pppoe-3.8, I took a look in the rp-pppoe ebuild file and found this, Gentoo is moving toward common configuration file for all network interfaces. Please use baselayout adsl module for configuring your

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-24 Thread Sven Köhler
Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? config_ppp9=( ppp )

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-24 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Monday 24 April 2006 22:38, Sven Köhler wrote: Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start and stop the connection at will?

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
Gentoo does use rp-pppoe to connect. It just does it when bringing up eth0 directly. No, since baselayout-1.12*, gentoo uses ppp and ppp's pppoe-plugin. rp-pppoe is not needed anymore! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
(1) Why rp-pppoe is deprecated? ppp included the pppoe-plugin known from rp-pppoe. the pppoe-plugin uses the kernel-mode PPPoE. There is no need for rp-pppoe anymore, because ppp offers everything needed. (2) Every time I call /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 there is a warning saying that net.ppp0 is

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Chen Yufei
First thanks! As Mrugesh mentioned rp-pppoe-3.8, I took a look in the rp-pppoe ebuild file and found this, Gentoo is moving toward common configuration file for all network interfaces. Please use baselayout adsl module for configuring your network using rp-pppoe or, better yet, use generic PPP