On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Todd Pearsall wrote:
> Thanks for the help Chris, but I really wanted Bering/Shorewall as the
> router/firewall for the flexibility for DMZ configurations, dynamic DNS
> updates, etc.
>
> Steps to the final solution for the archives:
> - The Cayman 3320H cannot be put in bridge mode if it uses PPPoA. With
> the early firmware it will let you, but it doesn't work as a bridge. The
> later firmware will not let you.
> - Netopia said to try switching it to PPPoE and see if the Cayman can
> still connect. It did, I guess Bell South uses both PPPoA and PPPoE?
> - Once in PPPoE you can set it to bridge mode with the docs from the
> Netopia web site
> - From there setting up Bering was pretty smooth per the User Guide.
> The only thing that seemed odd was I thought the PPPoE would only use
> the pap id/pw, but I had to add the id/pw to the ppp chat setting also.
I think this last note contains a minor error.
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets is a flat-file "database" of passwords for making
connections.
/etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider is a connection-specific pppd options file in
which the username for that connection must be specified. pppd looks up
the password in the "database", and uses the PAP protocol (a specific
protocol layered on top of ppp) to authenticate the connection.
/etc/chatscripts/provider is used for bringing up serial connections that
might otherwise need a human hand to invoke the ppp protocol on the other
end. PPPoE has no such phase prior to the beginning of ppp... the
authentication is done AFTER the ppp protocol begins. Ergo, editing this
file will have no effect on a PPPoE connection.
To remember this, it may help to recognize that you can invoke ppp
connections to multiple destinations, and each will have its own
"/etc/ppp/peers/*" pppd options file that specifies the username for that
connection, but the username database will contain the passwords for all
connections you plan to make from this machine (at least the ones that use
pap).
>
> Thanks again for the help,
Thanks for summarizing your efforts. :)
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