On the gentoo documentation page, i'm missing a guide about pppoe. The x86 installation guide coverage is very short there..
If anyone would like to write a pppoe guide, it should cover at least the following topics. I can only talk about the setup I intend to use, but i guess it might be useful for many other users, too.
Let's assume that I'm using eth0 for the LAN and eth1 for the DSL modem.
The x86 installation guide describes how to connect to the internet using adsl-setup / adsl-start, which worked fine so far, but:
1. after booting the fresh installed gentoo box (which shall act as router/gateway), exactly which packages do i need to emerge ?
2. As far as i understood, i need *not* to add eth1 to the default runlevel using 'rc-update eth1 default' because pppoe will do everything for me ?
3. What's the name of the config file which i need to setup the MTU for eth1 to 1500, and how do i setup the MTU on all other hosts in my LAN to 1452 ? I need the name of the config files and the right parameter descriptions. What about the MTU value for eth0 on the router ?
4. My current provider sucks (German t-online), it drops the connection each 24 hours, so i need an automatic re-connection cron script which checks if the connection is still up, and re-connects if my provider pulled the plug again.
5. After each new connection, i need to execute a script for updating my dyndns aliases (i've got a dynamic ip), and probably I also need to restart ntpd. So: howto exec a post-connect script ?
6. Which packages do i need to emerge for setting up my router as a router ? Then, how to configure simple routing ?
7. Firewalling is a different topic; I think one can use one of the guides at tldp.org, which also covers advanced routing techniques, like traffic limiting/shaping for smoother browsing (while some host is downloading at full speed), etc. So the pppoe guide would not have to cover these topics, but it should at least cover questions 1-6 in detail.
I've already installed all that (including firewall) on my SuSE router, everything works well there but I simply want to switch to gentoo, and SuSE is very proprietary there; everything is different. I guess i'll find most answers for myself, but this'll take at least 2-3 days for checking, testing, booting, kernel re-compiling etc. etc., so a good pppoe guide would be great. No need to say that we can assume at least a 2.4 kernel, so a good pppoe guide should not describe outdated stuff from the earlier days.
However, such a guide would be a great addition to the gentoo documentation list.
Cheers..
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